{"id":232,"date":"2014-11-02T17:25:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T00:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2014-11-02T18:26:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T01:26:24","slug":"looking-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"looking good (p.1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

[in all fairness, i had just detailed the Z a week before, and have for some time been keeping a car cover over her. so it should be no\u00a0surprise that people notice just a little bit more.]<\/em><\/p>\n

it had rained the day before, so the weather was spectacular, the clouds fluffy white, and the pavement dry. the F1 race at COTA in austin didn’t start till noon, so i decided i had time for a laguna canyon loop run in the Z. i cleared the canyon with little traffic and turned right onto PCH. the ocean loomed deep blue over the horizon and the cliffs of catalina were subtly visible. as i stopped at the funky 5-way intersection where the cottage used to be, a group of tourists, locals and dogs, crossed in the crosswalk ahead of me. when the grey-haired man who held lovingly to his wife’s hand reached my left fender he turned and said to me, “she’s a beauty!” i was pretty sure he was referring to the green 240Z in which i sat–but he might\u00a0just as\u00a0easily been referring to the woman who’s hand he was holding like he’s been holding likely\u00a0for the better part of 50 years. his comment caught be a bit off-guard because i’d been distracted by\u00a0the two bulldogs shuffling across the walk at the same time. i smiled, waved and thanked him. i’m pretty sure the conversation he had as he and his wife walked along the beach had a lot to do with his Z story.<\/p>\n

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not my pic, but this is how the original cottage looked. today it was in the process of\u00a0being remodeled. kinda sad to me. wasn’t my favorite place, but was certainly a landmark.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[in all fairness, i had just detailed the Z a week before, and have for some time been keeping a car cover over her. so it should be no\u00a0surprise that people notice just a little bit more.] it had rained the day before, so the …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-240z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}