{"id":7098,"date":"2019-06-15T20:15:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2019-06-17T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:07:38","slug":"140-yeah-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=7098","title":{"rendered":"140, yeah, sure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 8 miles, Dave&#8217;s house in Starkville]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m using a rental car today. It is a Jeep Cherokee of recent vintage.  It has 22k miles on it.  It drives very nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve found one thing about it that is just outrageous: the speedometer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is a normal circle of numbers with a pointer. It goes from 0 to 140 MPH. They use just under 3\/4&#8217;s of the circle for the number range. Zero is down (6 o&#8217;clock); 140 is between 2 and 3 o&#8217;clock. And the number that is straight up? 100 MPH. The actual useful range of the speedometer is about [&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-] that far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately they also include a digital speedometer in the display, which then makes me wonder why they wasted 1\/3rd of the useful display space on a speedometer that is both redundant and useless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise the car is working fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190616_061250509-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7101\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190616_061250509-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190616_061250509-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190616_061250509-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 8 miles, Dave&#8217;s house in Starkville] I&#8217;m using a rental car today. It is a Jeep Cherokee of recent vintage. It has 22k miles on it. It drives very nicely. I&#8217;ve found one thing about it that is just outrageous: the speedometer. The thing is a normal circle of numbers with a pointer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","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-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7103,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions\/7103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}