{"id":4759,"date":"2010-09-01T01:54:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T05:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2021-03-18T19:49:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T23:49:56","slug":"famous-gps-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4759","title":{"rendered":"Famous GPS Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z09012010gps_voices.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My buddy, <strong>John Beatty<\/strong>, was the first person I knew to have a <strong>GPS<\/strong> for his car.\u00a0 He took me for a test drive and showed me how the system worked.\u00a0 I thought it was the coolest device going and loved how it &#8220;spoke&#8221; real time, turn-by-turn directions.\u00a0 <strong>John<\/strong> and I got to talking about how wicked it would be if famous voices were giving the directions.\u00a0\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t it be wild to hear <strong>John Wayne, Bugs Bunny, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Elmer Fudd, Droopy<\/strong> or any of a gazillion other celebs helping you find your destination?<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I&#8217;m still holding out for the day when I&#8217;m driving and hear from my <strong>GPS<\/strong>, &#8220;Yo! Turn left at the next light&#8221; and then when I make the turn, we&#8217;ll hear, &#8220;Yo!\u00a0 Adrian!\u00a0 He did it!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy, John Beatty, was the first person I knew to have a GPS for his car.\u00a0 He took me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26284,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions\/26284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}