{"id":1473,"date":"2009-01-01T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/01\/01\/presidential-limos\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T16:00:30","slug":"presidential-limos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/01\/01\/presidential-limos\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Limos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonian.com\/blogarticles\/people\/capitalcomment\/10534.html\">this Washingtonian article<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>It includes a sneak peak at what&#8217;s rumored to be the next iteration of the Presidential limo. First impression? It&#8217;s the ugliest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen. Yes, worse than the Pontiac Aztec.<\/p>\n<p>But there are some neat facts (well, likely facts: it&#8217;s apparently a, &#8220;I could tell you, but then I&#8217;d have to kill you&#8221; matter) to go with the photo of the monstrosity that will carry our Commander in Chief. Like the fact that the armor is possibly eight-inches thick, to stop not only bullets, but bombs. And a reference to Bush&#8217;s limo breaking down in Italy, revealing a second usage of the decoy limos: spares.<\/p>\n<p>Most interesting of all, though? No one seems to have ever seen a decommissioned Presidential limo. That&#8217;s probably because they&#8217;re rumored to be resting on the ocean floor somewhere. Which raises a couple questions in my mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They&#8217;ve apparently been successful in discreetly dropping cars to swim with the fishes, where they&#8217;re never seen again. And it makes since, since the oceans are incredibly vast. But what is so secretive about these cars that they can&#8217;t just be stripped of a few components and put in the Smithsonian or Cadillac&#8217;s headquarters?<\/li>\n<li>What else have we sent into (permanent) hiding on the ocean floor? Surely, more than a few old limos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But, of course, if I knew these answers, I might be the next thing deposited on the ocean floor. So I&#8217;m content speculating.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this Washingtonian article today. It includes a sneak peak at what&#8217;s rumored to be the next iteration of the Presidential limo. First impression? It&#8217;s the ugliest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen. Yes, worse than the Pontiac Aztec. But there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/01\/01\/presidential-limos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}