{"id":6879,"date":"2017-06-28T12:50:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T12:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6879"},"modified":"2017-06-27T12:51:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T12:51:02","slug":"linked-of-speed-and-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/linked-of-speed-and-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Of Speed and Beauty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2939,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.vnews.com\\\/Car-clubbers-share-coffee-9306991&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.vnews.com\\\/Car-clubbers-share-coffee-9306991&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vnews.com\/Car-clubbers-share-coffee-9306991\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via VNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Adam Chandler, of Enfield, who moved to the area six years ago from San Francisco, started the Cars and Coffee Club\u2019s event in September, and said he\u2019s hoping to grow the morning meetings \u2014 held the third Saturday of each month \u2014 significantly this year. A project manager at TomTom, Chandler discovered cars as a hobby four years ago, and learned how to do car projects by studying YouTube videos. When he started, it took him 15 hours to replace an exhaust system, a two-hour job.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now he\u2019s thinking about adding slicks (tires with a solid surface) to add a fractional amount of speed to his car, which can already get to a quarter mile in 11.98 seconds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI know if I put slicks on there, I can get another .2 seconds,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve been trying to get a local Cars &amp; Coffee off the ground. It\u2019s nice to get some local press for the first time in a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via VNews: Adam Chandler, of Enfield, who moved to the area six years ago from San Francisco, started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-06-28T12:50:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"d1eb67eb-67b7-4a61-850b-01fe855ecb17","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-06-28T12:50:52Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0etn62e3SmGFCwH-hV7LFw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1MX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6844,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/my-car-cars-coffee-nhvt-april-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":6879,"position":0},"title":"My Car: Cars &#038; Coffee NH\/VT, April 2017","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I started this event last year as we don\u2019t have any form of Cars & Coffee less than 90 minutes from our area. 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The mechanical car is just the external body of these human-derived creatures. I call this the Homunculus Theory. Color me disturbed but in agreement that this is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6412,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/linked-heres-what-no-one-tells-you-about-driving-180-mph-on-the-autobahn\/","url_meta":{"origin":6879,"position":2},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Here&#8217;s What No One Tells You About Driving 180 MPH On The Autobahn&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Jalopnik: Read the entire post if you\u2019re a person who likes driving spiritedly. These rules apply to all driving. Higher speed and the factors are compounded. The next major mod I do to my car is the move to carbon ceramic brakes and 2-piece rotors. I can\u2019t afford a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5031,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/25\/linked-people-are-paying-for-car-tech-they-arent-even-using\/","url_meta":{"origin":6879,"position":3},"title":"Linked: &#8220;People Are Paying For Car Tech They Aren&#8217;t Even Using&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via Jalopnik\u00a0and Reuters: The most underused feature was in-vehicle concierge systems that can recommend nearby restaurants or gas stations. It was not used by 43 percent of respondents and followed by mobile routers that turn a car into a Wifi hot spot, unused by 38 percent. Automatic parking systems were\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6790,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/26\/linked-why-buying-used-cars-could-put-your-safety-at-risk\/","url_meta":{"origin":6879,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Why buying used cars could put your safety at risk&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via CNN: \"The car is really smart, but it's not smart enough to know who its owner is, so it's not smart enough to know it's been resold,\" Henderson told CNNTech. \"There's nothing on the dashboard that tells you 'the following people have access to the car.'\" This isn't an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4303,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/11\/21\/linked-this-last-generation-of-human-driven-cars-will-be-better-than-any-before\/","url_meta":{"origin":6879,"position":5},"title":"Linked: &#8220;This Last Generation Of Human-Driven Cars Will Be Better Than Any Before&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"via Jalopnik: If we take a \u201cgeneration\" of cars to be somewhere in the range of 10-20 years, then I think what we're seeing today at the Paris Auto Show, and what we'll be seeing in the next year or so, is the vanguard of the last generation of cars\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}