{"id":32143,"date":"2006-02-24T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/02\/24\/the-top-gear-winter-olympics-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T10:00:18","slug":"the-top-gear-winter-olympics-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060224-18\/?p=32143","title":{"rendered":"The Top Gear Winter Olympics 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I know nothing about cars. Driving fast scares me. But I still enjoy the British car show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/topgear\/\"> <i>Top Gear<\/i><\/a>. The hosts clearly enjoy driving, and they don&#8217;t hold back in their commentary. (&#8220;This was the first seven-seat 4&times;4 designed by someone who had children, not by an engineer who read about them in a book.&#8221;) Last week was their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/main.jhtml?xml=\/sport\/2006\/02\/23\/sojimw23.xml&amp;sSheet=\/sport\/2006\/02\/23\/ixothspt.html\"> Winter Olympics Episode<\/a>, and it did not disappoint. They drove a biathlon (with Jeremy of course cheating unabashedly). They raced a Jaguar against a speed skater. Plenty of other events. But the highlight was sending a Mini down the ski jump. <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=5096390531229048703\"> Watch it<\/a>. (Warning: One-hour video.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know nothing about cars. Driving fast scares me. But I still enjoy the British car show Top Gear. The hosts clearly enjoy driving, and they don&#8217;t hold back in their commentary. (&#8220;This was the first seven-seat 4&times;4 designed by someone who had children, not by an engineer who read about them in a book.&#8221;) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-32143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I know nothing about cars. Driving fast scares me. But I still enjoy the British car show Top Gear. The hosts clearly enjoy driving, and they don&#8217;t hold back in their commentary. (&#8220;This was the first seven-seat 4&times;4 designed by someone who had children, not by an engineer who read about them in a book.&#8221;) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}