{"id":1666,"date":"2017-09-26T23:24:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T12:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1666-envy.html"},"modified":"2017-09-26T23:57:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T13:27:46","slug":"envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1666-envy.html","title":{"rendered":"Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2299 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1498-_MG_9747.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere we were strolling down Marshall Street, Edinburgh in search of Elephants when without warning this object of desire pulled up beside us in traffic.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI immediately dropped to my knees. Not in supplication but to get a better angle of this green machine from Britain&#8217;s most exotic (really the only) supercar manufacturer, McLaren.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerhaps the streets of Edinburgh are crawling with 570Ss, &#8216;The affordable McLaren&#8217;. Starting at around a quarter of a million Australian dollars I am sure they are a popular choice for the narrow streets and heavy traffic.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTongue-in-cheek aside, the 570S is a beautiful creation giving those Italian machines solid competition in both style and engineering.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis is only ever the third McLaren I have personally seen in the wild anywhere in the world and this time I was just lucky to have been holding my camera while looking for Elephants on Marshall Street.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;Envy&#8217;, 1\/500s f\/4.5 ISO100 700mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There we were strolling down Marshall Street, Edinburgh in search of Elephants when without warning this object of desire pulled up beside us in traffic. I immediately dropped to my knees. Not in supplication but to get a better angle of this green machine from Britain&#8217;s most exotic (really the only) supercar manufacturer, McLaren. Perhaps &#8230; <a title=\"Envy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1666-envy.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Envy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}