{"id":478,"date":"2010-10-15T23:01:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2010-10-15T23:52:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T04:52:47","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> New Shoes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Finally dumped the run-flats in favor of real tires on the Z4. What an amazing difference. It feels like a totally different car. Smoother, quieter, and it handles much better. Why BMW ever switched to using run-flats is beyond me. Worst tires ever made.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> Texas Rangers &#8211; How do you blow a 5-0 8th inning lead and <em>not<\/em> be the Red Sox? They&#8217;ve really set themselves back now. It&#8217;ll be a miracle if they take this series.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>More Photoshop fun &#8211; My Z4 doesn&#8217;t get to travel much, at least not in the real world. But it gets around in Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Z4 at Home in the Cornfields\" rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_01.jpg\" alt=\"Z4 at Home in the Cornfields\" width=\"532\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Z4 by Cadillac Lake, MI\" rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_03.jpg\" alt=\"Z4 by Cadillac Lake, MI\" width=\"532\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"With a Blimp\" rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_02.jpg\" alt=\"'With a Blimp\" width=\"532\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Z4 in San Juan Capistrano\" rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_04.jpg\" alt=\"Z4 in San Juan Capistrano\" width=\"532\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Z4 in Grotto Bay, Bermuda\" rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_05.jpg\" alt=\"Z4 in Grotto Bay, Bermuda\" width=\"532\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Z4 in Chicago\" rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_06.jpg\" alt=\"Z4 in Chicago\" width=\"532\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Z4 in Florida\" rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_07.jpg\" alt=\"Z4 in Florida\" width=\"532\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Z4 in Central Park\" rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_08.jpg\" alt=\"Z4 in Central Park\" width=\"532\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Z4 by Navy Pier, Chicago\" rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_09.jpg\" alt=\"Z4 by Navy Pier, Chicago\" width=\"532\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Z4 in Germany\" rel=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/Z4\/locations\/Z4_11.jpg\" alt=\"Z4 in Germany\" width=\"532\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week. New Shoes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Finally dumped the run-flats in favor of real tires on the Z4. What an amazing difference. It feels like a totally different car. Smoother, quieter, and it handles much better. Why BMW ever switched to using run-flats is beyond me. Worst tires ever made. Texas Rangers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}