{"id":2614,"date":"2007-08-14T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T17:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/when_that_engine_roars_it_enters_my_blood_like_a_fever.html"},"modified":"2007-08-14T09:43:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T17:43:18","slug":"when_that_engin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/when_that_engin.html","title":{"rendered":"When That Engine Roars, It Enters My Blood Like A Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/14\/obituaries\/14astor.html?ex=1344744000&#038;en=08d2447dbad4d36c&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">the last of the Four Hundred passes on<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/14\/nyregion\/14spitzer.html?ex=1344744000&#038;en=491b2145e1fefe3f&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">new dynasty emerges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For almost nine hours on Sunday, Eliot Spitzer, the Upper East Sider with the Princeton and Harvard education and the reputation for a hyperkinetic braininess, indulged his other side. Nascar, possibly the vehicle for the nation&#8217;s most overt display of country fried machismo, has recently become a calculated interest for ambitious politicians trying to appeal to a working-class male demographic.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Spitzer, however, can lay a legitimate claim to fandom, and appears to relish the sport as fervently as he does the Yankees.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the last of the Four Hundred passes on, a new dynasty emerges: For almost nine hours on Sunday, Eliot Spitzer, the Upper East Sider with the Princeton and Harvard education and the reputation for a hyperkinetic braininess, indulged his other side. Nascar, possibly the vehicle for the nation&#8217;s most overt display of country fried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culturalanthropological","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}