{"id":9820,"date":"2015-11-23T16:28:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T16:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=9820"},"modified":"2016-02-11T16:30:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:30:57","slug":"making-out-like-a-banditthe-octane-lounge-nov-23-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/making-out-like-a-banditthe-octane-lounge-nov-23-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Making out like a Bandit<\/br>The Octane Lounge Nov 23, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Octane_Lounge_BANDIT.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9821\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Octane_Lounge_BANDIT-117x300.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled-14.indd\" width=\"117\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Octane_Lounge_BANDIT-117x300.jpg 117w, https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Octane_Lounge_BANDIT.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/><\/a>Overview<\/h2>\n<div>\nDon&#8217;t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media&#8217;s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they&#8217;re produced. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">here<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoctanelounge.com\">www.theoctanelounge.com<\/a> to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.<\/p>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>The late 1970s was unquestionably one of the darkest periods in American cultural, political and automotive history.  Think about it: The two most popular forms of music in the late 1970s were blaring disco and bad corporate rock. The well-meaning but utterly ineffectual Jimmy Carter was in the White House, Iran held American hostages and there were long lines and high prices at the gas stations.  The domestic U.S. auto industry was in a shambles, too, with bad designs, minimal quality control and severely choked horsepower.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">Please contact us to order this feature.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late 1970s was unquestionably one of the darkest periods in American cultural, political and automotive history.  Think about it: The two most popular forms of music in the late 1970s were blaring disco and bad corporate rock. The well-meaning but utterly ineffectual Jimmy Carter was in the White House, Iran held American hostages and there were long lines and high prices at the gas stations.  The domestic U.S. auto industry was in a shambles, too, with bad designs, minimal quality control and severely choked horsepower.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-store-items","category-the-octane-lounge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9822,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions\/9822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}