{"id":661,"date":"2009-11-20T11:17:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=661"},"modified":"2010-02-05T01:34:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T06:34:48","slug":"atomic-batteries-to-power-turbines-to-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2009\/11\/20\/atomic-batteries-to-power-turbines-to-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-663 alignnone\" title=\"IMG_0074\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0074.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0074\" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0074.jpg 401w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0074-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They say that every American man has a love affair with his first car. I don&#8217;t know if that is really true but the decision to part with the Batmobile after 20 years was like deciding to shoot my horse after it broke a leg. It was something painful, but something that needed to be done. She was getting a little old and harder to maintain in these difficult economic times. I hated to part with her but that last estimate of 1500 bucks for a new ABS braking pump was the kicker. And this was after dropping 900 bucks for a new transmission sensor control. Between maintenance, garage, insurance, and gas I was spending a ton of money per month that could be better spent on other stuff. Despite all that it is not an exaggeration<!--more--> for me to say that it was like losing an old friend.<\/p>\n<p>People that know me are aware that this is the end of an era for me. The Batmobile, aka &#8220;The Black Max&#8221;, was the very first thing that I bought when I graduated from college and got a real job. I purchased it brand spankin&#8217; new off of the dealership floor. I didn&#8217;t even haggle with the salesman. I walked in and told him that I wanted that car and he needed to make it happen today if he wanted the sale. Needless to say I paid more for it than I should have. But I didn&#8217;t care. That is how it is sometimes with your first car.<\/p>\n<p>After 20 years there are so many memories and good times surrounding that ride. I took my wife on our first date in that car. I drove both of my children home from the hospital in that ride. Drove cross country twice in the Max as I shopped around my demo at various Hip-Hop conferences. That car allowed me to carry my moms back and forth to the hospital as she underwent chemo. And these are just the stories that I can mention in polite company. The Batmobile was a bad ass pimped out 1990 Nissan Max with all the trimmings and she will be missed. And before you ask, yeah&#8230; I cried like a lil&#8217; bi%@h as they carted her away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-672\" title=\"IMG_0201\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0201.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0201.jpg 401w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_0201-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that every American man has a love affair with his first car. I don&#8217;t know if that is really true but the decision to part with the Batmobile after 20 years was like deciding to shoot my horse after it broke a leg. It was something painful, but something that needed to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,6,10],"tags":[286],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hip-hop","category-lifestyle","category-travel","tag-batmobile"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}