{"id":3136,"date":"2010-09-30T17:18:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T21:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2018-08-05T22:38:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T02:38:04","slug":"thursday-september-30-2010-kirkwall-orkney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3136","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, September 30, 2010 \u2014 Figaro in Kirkwall, Orkney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I snapped a pho\u00adto of this curi\u00adous car, which I found parked on a street in Kirkwall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/blog-2010-sep-29-Kirkwall-car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3137\" title=\"blog 2010 sep 29 Kirkwall car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/blog-2010-sep-29-Kirkwall-car-300x225.jpg\" alt width=\"356\" height=\"265\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To iden\u00adti\u00adfy it, I con\u00adtact\u00aded my friend Peter Svi\u00adlans, an expert of auto\u00admo\u00adtive his\u00adto\u00adry. He replied:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>That is indeed an inter\u00adest\u00ading car.&nbsp;It goes by the charm\u00ading name of \u2018Figaro\u2019, and was built by a spe\u00adcial divi\u00adsion of Nis\u00adsan in lim\u00adit\u00aded num\u00adbers in 1991.&nbsp;The delib\u00ader\u00adate\u00adly retro-styled car&nbsp;was ini\u00adtial\u00adly sold by means of a lot\u00adtery in Japan only, but it proved quite pop\u00adu\u00adlar and addi\u00adtion\u00adal cars were built.&nbsp;Rare and col\u00adlectible.&nbsp;An&nbsp;off the beat\u00aden track&nbsp;car in an out of the way&nbsp;place.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I snapped a pho\u00adto of this curi\u00adous car, which I found parked on a street in Kirk\u00adwall. To iden\u00adti\u00adfy it, I con\u00adtact\u00aded my friend Peter Svi\u00adlans, an expert of auto\u00admo\u00adtive his\u00adto\u00adry. He replied: \u201cThat is indeed an inter\u00adest\u00ading car.&nbsp;It goes&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3136\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-aq-blog-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7781,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/7781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}