{"id":23001,"date":"2007-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/model-t-vs-today\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T06:00:00","slug":"model-t-vs-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/model-t-vs-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Model-T vs Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember where I saw\/heard this originally, but the 1908 Ford Model-T had a 17MPG average, while the best selling Ford of 2006, the F-150, had an average of 16MPG. Of course today&#8217;s vehicles are much heavier, safer, and more comfortable than the Model-T, but it&#8217;s still odd to think that the MPG hasn&#8217;t improved much in 100 years. FYI, the national (US) average is about 21MPG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember where I saw\/heard this originally, but the 1908 Ford Model-T had a 17MPG average, while the best selling Ford of 2006, the F-150, had an average of 16MPG. Of course today&#8217;s vehicles are much heavier, safer, and more comfortable than the Model-T, but it&#8217;s still odd to think that the MPG hasn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/model-t-vs-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Model-T vs Today<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5YZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}