{"id":341298,"date":"2017-12-27T19:31:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lets-never-let-the-left-live-down\/"},"modified":"2017-12-27T19:31:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T18:31:45","slug":"lets-never-let-the-left-live-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lets-never-let-the-left-live-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Never Let the Left Live Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In the fall of 1987 Mercedes-Benz released its 1988 560 SEL sedan.\u00a0 The car was beautiful, full of gadgets including digital stereo, cassette player, leather steering wheel, and anything else the well-to-do of the time could seemingly want. For the safety conscious the car had anti-lock brakes (ABS), along with driver and front passenger airbags.\u00a0 The SEL\u2019s seats adjusted electrically, as did its side mirrors.\u00a0 For buyers willing to spend a bit more, electric seat heaters were an option.\u00a0<em>Car &amp; Driver<\/em>\u00a0and other auto enthusiast magazines wrote about the SEL in superlatives.\u00a0 The car retailed for over $68,000.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 Ford Motor Company discontinued its Ford Taurus. At the time\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Live\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>comedy writers described the Taurus (this is a slight paraphrase) as \u201cthe car for people who\u2019ve given up.\u201d Eventually Ford brought back the automobile associated with average.\u00a0 Interesting there is that a $31,000 2018 Taurus has 4-wheel ABS, dual front side mounted airbags, front and rear head airbags, dusk-sensing headlights, a blind spot warning accident avoidance system, rear parking sensors and a rear-backup camera (to avoid dings), and a\u00a0<em>heated steering wheel<\/em>.\u00a0 Electric seats are a given.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2006, only the higher-end suites at the Four Seasons in Austin, TX (the city\u2019s most luxurious hotel) had flat-screen televisions.\u00a0 The regular rooms still had the box-shaped version.\u00a0 But by 2015 flat-screen tvs were standard not just in rooms at the Four Seasons, but also in most any Motel 6.<\/p>\n<p>Air travel? Those rich enough to fly used to travel with flip flops, but only in their bags.\u00a0 They dressed up for what was a rare luxury.\u00a0 Nowadays people walk on to planes in flip flops, shorts, tank tops, and other garments&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/12\/no_author\/lets-never-let-the-left-live-down-its-absurd-net-neutrality-alarmism\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 1987 Mercedes-Benz released its 1988 560 SEL sedan.\u00a0 The car was beautiful, full of gadgets including digital stereo, cassette player, leather steering wheel, and anything else the well-to-do of the time could seemingly want. For the safety conscious the car had anti-lock brakes (ABS), along with driver and front passenger airbags.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}