{"id":2768,"date":"2002-09-24T12:49:01","date_gmt":"2002-09-24T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2002-09-24T12:49:01","modified_gmt":"2002-09-24T17:49:01","slug":"forget_the_amaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/24\/forget_the_amaz.html","title":{"rendered":"Forget the Amazon Wish List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/wishlist\/1WRZHCGXCOXXG\/\">Wish List<\/a>.  Forget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/16\/target_locked.html\">this<\/a>.  I know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moller.com\/skycar\/\">what I want for Christmas <\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oooooh, baby!\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/flyingcar.jpg\" width=\"152\" height=\"88\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/>Moller International has developed the first and only feasible, personally affordable, personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle the world has ever seen. <br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve always known it was just a matter of time before the world demanded some kind of flying machine which would replace the automobile. Of course, this machine would have to be capable of VTOL, be easy to maintain, cost effective and reliable. Well, we at Moller International believe we have come up with the solution. That solution is the volantor named M400 Skycar.<\/p>\n<p>Honey, you can make it my Christmas <i>and <\/i>birthday gift, if you want.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2002_09_01_archive.html#85485805\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget the Wish List. Forget this. I know what I want for Christmas &#8230; Moller International has developed the first and only feasible, personally affordable, personal vertical takeoff and landing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1357,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/19\/oh_yeah_come_to.html","url_meta":{"origin":2768,"position":0},"title":"Oh, yeah, come to papa &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 19-Jan-02 10:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"For those of you wondering what to get me for Christmas -- hell, for the next twenty Christmases -- wonder no more. 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