{"id":13123,"date":"2012-06-14T09:43:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/?p=13123"},"modified":"2012-06-14T09:43:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T16:43:33","slug":"chop-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/14\/chop-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Chop it up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">Throwback Thursday. Remember when 9 seconds for an import was like first stepping on the moon? \u00a0The iconic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tanabe-usa.com\/\">\u00a0Tanabe<\/a>\/Signal Auto&#8217;s Chopped Civic\u00a0achieved\u00a0such a feat by \u00a0beating most front wheel drive drag cars and\u00a0immortalizing\u00a0it in import drag racing history.\u00a0The Chop Top Civic #1 ran a best of\u00a09.97 sec. 1\/4 mile. While the sibling Chop Top #2 ran a best of 9.74 sec. 1\/4 mile.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/14\/chop-it-up\/civicchopone_05\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13153\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CivicChopONE_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CivicChopONE_05.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CivicChopONE_05-200x149.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CivicChopONE_05-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/14\/chop-it-up\/civicchopone_00\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CivicChopONE_00.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CivicChopONE_00.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CivicChopONE_00-200x149.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CivicChopONE_00-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/14\/chop-it-up\/tanabedragcivic00-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13154\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tanabedragcivic001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tanabedragcivic001.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tanabedragcivic001-200x136.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tanabedragcivic001-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/14\/chop-it-up\/tanabedragcivic02\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13126\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tanabedragcivic02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tanabedragcivic02.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tanabedragcivic02-147x200.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tanabedragcivic02-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throwback Thursday. Remember when 9 seconds for an import was like first stepping on the moon? \u00a0The iconic \u00a0Tanabe\/Signal Auto&#8217;s Chopped Civic\u00a0achieved\u00a0such a feat by \u00a0beating most front wheel drive drag cars and\u00a0immortalizing\u00a0it in import drag racing history.\u00a0The Chop Top Civic #1 ran a best of\u00a09.97 sec. 1\/4 mile. While the sibling Chop Top #2 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/14\/chop-it-up\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":13153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1393,1391,1392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13123"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13181,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13123\/revisions\/13181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}