{"id":683,"date":"2006-09-22T15:01:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T15:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2006-09-22T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T15:01:34","slug":"there_are_obsessions_and_then_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/22\/there_are_obsessions_and_then_the\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Obsessions and Then There Are Obsessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People get into their hobbies. I understand that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/09\/the_digital_bits_on_the_new_st.html\">really, I do<\/a>. But <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/oouq8\">this<\/a> takes the cake: it seems some crazy French Ferrari enthusiast spent 15 years constructing an exact 1:3 scale model of his favorite car. And when I say &#8220;exact,&#8221; I mean <i>exact<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis 12-cylinder engine just isn\u2019t any 12-cylinder engine, it is a 1:3 scale Ferrari 12-cylinder engine with the same beautiful sound.  It took Pierre six months of running the engine on his own dynamometer to tune the header pipes so they would give off the same sound value as he had recorded from the engine of the real car.  Once Pierre had the engine bolted together for the first time, it started on the very first try and, since then, has logged more than fifty hours of running time with no failures or refusals to start (It\u2019s probably more reliable than the real engine).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suddenly feel strangely&#8230; inadequate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People get into their hobbies. I understand that, really, I do. But this takes the cake: it seems some crazy French Ferrari enthusiast spent 15 years constructing an exact 1:3 scale model of his favorite car. And when I say &#8220;exact,&#8221; I mean exact: This 12-cylinder engine just isn\u2019t any 12-cylinder engine, it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}