{"id":247,"date":"2014-11-02T19:06:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T02:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2014-11-02T19:15:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T02:15:24","slug":"sounds-good-p-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"sounds good! (p.3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

it matters more how it sounded, but this is how it looked: (stock photo)<\/p>\n

\"Jaguar-F-Type-01\"<\/a><\/p>\n

turning on to newport coast drive, and before i got to pelican hill archway of excess on the left, i was taken by the stunning lines of a black jaguar F-type R convertible along side me. as he accelerated\u00a0away from the light, the pops and growls\u00a0of his exhaust were high-DB music to my ears. as we wound up and thru the newport coast, i stayed as close as i could so i could enjoy the music through my open windows. at the light in front of sage high school i finally pulled up next to the source of the song. the cat was captained by a skipper-esque (think gilligan’s island) looking gentleman and the woman in the passenger seat who was\u00a0along for a wonderful sunday drive. i made eye contact and said, “sounds great!” at the moment the light turned green. triggered like a\u00a0cue from the\u00a0director, the cat roared full-throttle away from the intersection. wow. wow. and before it got even a car length ahead, out from\u00a0the open top popped an enthusiastic thumbs-up from the passenger who was certainly enjoying the ride.<\/p>\n

p.s. a big reason i didn’t make every effort to attend the COTA austin F1 race this year is that the cars just don’t sound right, and this little experience with a cat that roared reminded me just how important the aural experience is to driving.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

it matters more how it sounded, but this is how it looked: (stock photo) turning on to newport coast drive, and before i got to pelican hill archway of excess on the left, i was taken by the stunning lines of a black jaguar F-type …<\/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-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-240z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zstoryz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}