{"id":2230,"date":"2010-08-08T07:15:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2010-08-06T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T15:24:16","slug":"the-wheels-on-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/08\/the-wheels-on-the-bus.html","title":{"rendered":"The Wheels on the Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They go round and frickin&#8217; round!\u00a0 Paul Stender and his team from Indy Boys Inc. have built a good old fashioned school bus that tops out at 367mph.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 If you have to ask why then you just understand the true nature of men.<\/p>\n<p>The bus sports a jet engine off of a phantom fighter plane and consumes 150 gallons of fuel in just a quarter mile run.\u00a0 There are frickin&#8217; flames coming out the back.<\/p>\n<p>To put this in perspective, if my kids could ride this bus to school they&#8217;d arrive in just under 23 seconds.\u00a0 That is, assuming you ignored acceleration and deceleration times, stop signs, and well&#8230; corners.\u00a0 Not to mention it would take 1380 gallons of fuel for each trip which I&#8217;m sure would have an impact on my school taxes.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s still awesome&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object id=\"TelegraphPlayer-7928384\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"LT\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"embedCode=xsN2VtMTp1BHr1PYXChemVNRyhQ8OmtJ&amp;offSite=true&amp;showTD=true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/template\/utils\/ooyala\/telegraph_player.swf\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"TelegraphPlayer-7928384\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"embedCode=xsN2VtMTp1BHr1PYXChemVNRyhQ8OmtJ&amp;offSite=true&amp;showTD=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><embed id=\"TelegraphPlayer-7928384\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/template\/utils\/ooyala\/telegraph_player.swf\" quality=\"high\" name=\"TelegraphPlayer-7928384\" flashvars=\"embedCode=xsN2VtMTp1BHr1PYXChemVNRyhQ8OmtJ&amp;offSite=true&amp;showTD=true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" salign=\"LT\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" scale=\"noscale\" wmode=\"window\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They go round and frickin&#8217; round!\u00a0 Paul Stender and his team from Indy Boys Inc. have built a good old<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/08\/the-wheels-on-the-bus.html\" title=\"Read The Wheels on the Bus\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-justforfun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}