{"id":4737,"date":"2010-01-14T21:48:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2010-01-14T21:48:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:48:51","slug":"re-auto-alphabet-soup-whats-in-a-car-name-wsj-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/re-auto-alphabet-soup-whats-in-a-car-name-wsj-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Auto Alphabet Soup: What&#8217;s in a Car Name? &#8211; WSJ.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wallstreet Journal &#8220;Opinion Journal&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A long time ago, almost all cars had evocative names\u2014the Cadillac Eldorado, the Pontiac Bonneville. In that automotive galaxy far away, there was even the Ford Galaxie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704586504574654653935447862.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion\">Auto Alphabet Soup: What&#8217;s in a Car Name? &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2443\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/029111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2443\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2443\" title=\"029111\" src=\"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/029111-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/029111-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/029111.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1915 Cadillac Type 51<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course, our CaddyInfo readers recall <a href=\"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=2974\" target=\"_self\">this article<\/a> and that Letter or Numeric names are actually old-school for Cadillac.\u00a0 The stylized names did not pop up until after WW II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wallstreet Journal &#8220;Opinion Journal&#8221;: A long time ago, almost all cars had evocative names\u2014the Cadillac Eldorado, the Pontiac Bonneville. In that automotive galaxy far away, there was even the Ford Galaxie via Auto Alphabet Soup: What&#8217;s in a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/re-auto-alphabet-soup-whats-in-a-car-name-wsj-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357,40,6],"tags":[7,857,376,377],"class_list":["post-4737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising-commercials","category-history","category-site-info-news","tag-cadillac","tag-history","tag-names","tag-wsj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4753,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions\/4753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}