{"id":506,"date":"2010-01-24T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2010-01-24T00:03:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T15:03:11","slug":"tokyo-auto-salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Auto Salon, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a few years since my last visit to the Tokyo Auto Salon, so I was really looking forward to seeing what had changed in the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>And the result: not much.<\/p>\n<p>The skimpily clad girls were just as skimpy as ever. As a result, the &#8220;camera kozo&#8221; were still out in force. The cars were as ridiculous as ever.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that had changed was the fact that a lot of companies were modifying the Toyota Prius.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst all the pseudo eco-cars, I did find this absolute gem. A car upholstered with leather, <em>on the <strong>outside<\/strong>! <\/em><br \/>\n(and even better, it wasn&#8217;t leather, it was vinyl!)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_507\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/leather-car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507\" class=\"size-full wp-image-507\" title=\"Leather Van\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/leather-car.jpg\" alt=\"Leather Van\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/leather-car.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/leather-car-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A red vinyl van, anyone?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a few years since my last visit to the Tokyo Auto Salon, so I was really looking forward to seeing what had changed in the last few years. And the result: not much. The skimpily clad girls were just as skimpy as ever. As a result, the &#8220;camera kozo&#8221; were still out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}