{"id":5180,"date":"2023-01-13T10:51:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2023-01-15T19:33:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T17:33:27","slug":"end-of-an-era-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5180","title":{"rendered":"End of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SpikkelsDeparture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SpikkelsDeparture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"668\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Said goodbye to my 1959 Series II that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/lr\/lr-rebuild.html\">completely rebuilt back in the late nineties<\/a>. 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Ended up not driving her (at all) for over five years &#8212; when I drained the fuel that had gone vrot in the tank, it was still red&#8230; So she went to live with someone else via the guys over at Pon Steyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}