{"id":2615,"date":"2009-05-14T08:22:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T08:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2022-06-15T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T11:16:41","slug":"absurdist-americana-no1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/culture\/absurdist-americana-no1\/","title":{"rendered":"Absurdist America"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2616\" title=\"absurd_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/absurd_1.jpg\" alt=\"absurd_1\" width=\"575\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/absurd_1.jpg 575w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/absurd_1-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/absurd_1-278x234.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/absurd_1-526x444.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/absurd_1-572x482.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Waiting to arrive in America, the country that probably created the dream of the open road.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s incredible what the word California evokes in the age of the credit crunch and the oil crisis. Hollywood icons riding around in Toyota Prius (what is the plural of Prius, surely not Priuses?), eight wheeled Hummers driven by evangelists in plaid.<\/p>\n<p>However rough the finish on American motors, there&#8217;s something special about arriving at LAX in the middle of the night and picking up your rental in a roboticaly monitored car park the size of Bristol and heading out onto a snaking interstate of red and white lights.<\/p>\n<p>Final call.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next two weeks Influx is in the USA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,1781],"tags":[1001,1972,2763,956],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-culture","tag-american","tag-culture","tag-hummer","tag-travel","manufacturers-hummer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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