{"id":6616,"date":"2011-08-01T23:46:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T23:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6616"},"modified":"2011-08-01T23:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T23:46:51","slug":"a-quarter-of-drivers-name-their-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6616","title":{"rendered":"A Quarter of Drivers Name Their Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6617 lazyload\" title=\"Ford Cortina Mk IV\" alt=\"Ford Cortina Mk IV\" width=\"179\" height=\"110\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cortina.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 179px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 179\/110;\" \/>It&#8217;s the silly season, so in the absence of any real news, you have to make it up (not me, but other people).<\/p>\n<p>Confused.com appears to be at a bit of a loose end. It <span style=\"color: #800000\">reports that 25% of drivers name their car. Most see it as female.<\/p>\n<p>I must confess, back in the days when I had cars which were likely to go wrong at the most inconvenient times, such cajoling as &#8220;come on, girl&#8221; and &#8220;come on, babe&#8221; did escape my lips on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine for one moment why something which was stubborn, unreliable, contrary, liable to break down, and so on&#160;wore a feminine persona better than it did a masculine one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the silly season, so in the absence of any real news, you have to make it up (not me, but other people). Confused.com appears to be at a bit of a loose end. It reports that 25% of drivers name their car. Most see it as female. I must confess, back in the days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}