{"id":10938,"date":"2016-11-17T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2016-11-17T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:04:13","slug":"the-manual-transmission-is-dying-and-its-all-our-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/the-manual-transmission-is-dying-and-its-all-our-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manual Transmission Is Dying And It&#8217;s All Our Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s--PSLIs5kY--\/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_center,h_450,q_80,w_800\/rz9hjycclaynde4m73i8.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>I don&#8217;t care how much easier an automatic transmission is in traffic, or how much better or faster it is to have paddle shifters. A six-speed shifter makes driving so much more FUN, and it connects you to the vehicle like no other transmission. You are a part of the car, not just the driver of it. I hope the day never comes when you can&#8217;t buy a stick shift.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gkttFl\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gkttFl<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care how much easier an automatic transmission is in traffic, or how much better or faster it is to have paddle shifters. A six-speed shifter makes driving so much more FUN, and it connects you to the vehicle like no other transmission. You are a part of the car, not just the driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-10938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11575,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/the-first-voice-transmission-from-space-was-eisenhower-wishing-peace-on-earth-from-a-nuclear-missile\/","url_meta":{"origin":10938,"position":0},"title":"The first voice transmission from space was Eisenhower wishing peace on Earth from a nuclear missile","date":"December 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"People of Earth. 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