{"id":117,"date":"2008-02-16T02:53:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T06:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2008\/02\/16\/mops-mini-clubman-debut\/"},"modified":"2008-02-16T02:55:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T06:55:04","slug":"mops-mini-clubman-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2008\/02\/16\/mops-mini-clubman-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"MOP&#8217;s MINI Clubman Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.minipeabody.com\">MINI of Peabody<\/a> threw a fun introduction party for the MINI Clubman tonight. The event started with an excellent catered dinner and drinks (including Young&#8217;s Double Chocolate Stout) at its Centenial Drive service facility. After an hour and a half of mingling and munching, they filed everyone into the service bays and started the show.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/media\/08\/clubman1.jpg\" BORDER=1\/><\/p>\n<p>\nAfter going over some MINI news (including the announcement that MOP will eventually be moving to their current Acura location on Rt. 114), Paul first displayed a parade of the current model MINIs. Then we had a parade of Clubmen (?) with several creative demonstrations. Afterwards everyone was able to have a first hand look at all the new MINIs, and of course everyone had to climb into the back seat.\n<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/media\/08\/clubman2.jpg\" BORDER=1\/><\/p>\n<p>\nAs I had thought, the Clubman looked better in person than I had seen in many photos. I do like the contrasting rear design, though I&#8217;m still not crazy about its side profile. I have no desire for one but I do think it was a smart idea, as many people have avoided a MINI simply because they wanted a bit more rear legroom. I met one excited person who already had theirs on order for and that very reason, their first mini.\n<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/media\/08\/clubman3.jpg\" BORDER=1\/><\/p>\n<p>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.joshwardell.com\/pics\/2008\/MINI\/0215%20Clubman%20Intro\/\">Visit the gallery to view all my photos of the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINI of Peabody threw a fun introduction party for the MINI Clubman tonight. The event started with an excellent catered dinner and drinks (including Young&#8217;s Double Chocolate Stout) at its Centenial Drive service facility. After an hour and a half of mingling and munching, they filed everyone into the service bays and started the show. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}