{"id":10442,"date":"2012-10-24T15:10:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T19:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=10442"},"modified":"2012-10-25T20:01:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T00:01:15","slug":"lego-stig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/lego-stig\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego Stig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some say he's made from injection-molded plastic, and that his legs are completely hollow. All we know is he's... the Stig's Lego cousin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/legostig.jpg\" title=\"Lego Stig\" width=\"255\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Now, this won't mean anything to most of our readers, but I've recently started watching <i>Top Gear<\/i> on BBC America - I find it makes nice background noise while I work, in that it's funny enough to be interesting, but plotless enough that I don't get wrapped up in what's happening instead of what I'm supposed to be working on.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the driver who runs the cars around the show's test track is a mysterious, white-suited enigma known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Stig\" target=wiki>The Stig<\/a>. He's always introduced with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somesaythestig.com\/\" target=_blank>a list of silly facts<\/a> about his life (\"Some say if he caught fire, he'd burn for 1,000 days.\"), and his identity is a closely guarded secret. However, in the October issue of <i>Top Gear<\/i> Magazine, there was a code that gave you the opportunity to buy an official Lego Stig keychain.<\/p>\n<p>Here's a video they released promoting it:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u86OpA3Py7U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I don't suppose we have any UK readers who are feeling generous, do we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say he's made from injection-molded plastic, and that his legs are completely hollow. All we know is he's... the Stig's Lego cousin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lego","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10451,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10442\/revisions\/10451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}