{"id":22974,"date":"2025-07-02T09:29:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22974"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:29:01","slug":"forgotten-design-the-africar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/02\/forgotten-design-the-africar\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten design: The Africar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re into weird cars, forgotten history, and stories that don&#8217;t end well, hit that subscribe button.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found this piece really interesting, not least because my wife &amp; I are headed to Africa for the first time next week, and I&#8217;m eager to learn what kinds of vehicles &amp; roads we&#8217;ll experience. Seems like something like the Africar would make a ton of sense in many places:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Car Was Built to Save Africa \u2013 And Got Its Creator Imprisoned\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C1CDtmgReZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re into weird cars, forgotten history, and stories that don&#8217;t end well, hit that subscribe button.&#8221; I found this piece really interesting, not least because my wife &amp; I are headed to Africa for the first time next week, and I&#8217;m eager to learn what kinds of vehicles &amp; roads we&#8217;ll experience. Seems like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22974"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22978,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22974\/revisions\/22978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}