{"id":14610,"date":"2026-10-07T18:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14610"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:47:27","slug":"mercedes-love-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14610","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still in it.<\/p>\n<p>That three pointed star hood ornament on a Mercedes-Benz actually has meaning apart from just being a company logo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14611\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/landseaandair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/landseaandair.jpg 369w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/landseaandair-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back when the internal combustion engine was a new thing, Gottlieb Daimler invented the first high speed four stroke internal combustion engine. He sent a postcard of the city of Stuttgart with a star he had drawn on it to his wife, writing that someday that star would shine over the factory he would build, that would make their fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Years later his son&#8217;s decided on the star to represent the company, and the three areas their father wanted to motorize: Land, Sea, and Air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9178\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mercedes_love-8-16-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mercedes_love-8-16-sm.jpg 500w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mercedes_love-8-16-sm-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My star, and the car it rides on, has just over 220k miles on it now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still in it. That three pointed star hood ornament on a Mercedes-Benz actually has meaning apart from just being a company logo&#8230; Back when the internal combustion engine was a new thing, Gottlieb Daimler invented the first high speed four stroke internal combustion engine. He sent a postcard of the city of Stuttgart with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-14610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-mercedes-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14612,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions\/14612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}