{"id":302,"date":"2009-02-06T20:30:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T01:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2012-03-13T22:28:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:28:20","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Good news\/Bad news &#8211; The good news is, Chris Bangle is leaving BMW. Bangle is the designer responsible for the worst change in design direction (IMHO)\u00c2\u00a0ever made by a car company. The 5, 6, &amp; 7 series BMWs all went from sleek, unique, instantly recognizable thoroughbreds to overweight, plain-Jane, run-of-the-mill tubs. The bad news (well, maybe) is that his prot\u00c3\u00a9g\u00c3\u00a9, Adrian van Hooydonk is taking over. Let&#8217;s hope he doesn&#8217;t follow in Bangle&#8217;s footsteps and that his designs look better than his haircut.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bimmermail.com\/cb-avh.JPG\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bimmermail.com\/cb-avh.JPG\" alt=\"Adrian van Hooydonk and Chris Bangle\" width=\"432\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8a3207;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 15px; height: 15px;\" title=\"Meh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/meh.gif\" alt=\"Meh\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0Stimulus package\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; I guess you can&#8217;t make everyone happy, but this plan seems to have settled on making everyone unhappy. I hope they know what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Warmer weather\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Finally. The snow will be gone after this weekend and next week&#8217;s forecasts are predicting (dare I say it?) near 60 degree temps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Economy &#8211; The bads news continues to pour in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Dad\u00c2\u00a0continues to improve.\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; He took a few steps this week and is eating more kinds of food. His voice is much stronger now, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Good news\/Bad news &#8211; The good news is, Chris Bangle is leaving BMW. Bangle is the designer responsible for the worst change in design direction (IMHO)\u00c2\u00a0ever made by a car company. The 5, 6, &amp; 7 series BMWs all went from sleek, unique, instantly recognizable thoroughbreds to overweight, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}