{"id":1050,"date":"2011-03-03T00:47:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T06:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2011-07-05T21:48:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T03:48:56","slug":"i-never-thought-it-would-come-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"I Never Thought It Would Come To This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/judgetheme-29hours.jpg\" alt=\"judgetheme-29hours\" title=\"judgetheme-29hours\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/judgetheme-29hours.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/judgetheme-29hours-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nBack when I was a <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/#!5289938\/our-friend-the-carburetor\">young Orange County performance artist<\/a>, I never once imagined that someday I&#8217;d have a job that resulted in groups of grown men and women <em>imitating me<\/em>. Being a judge on the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court is such a job. In the photograph above, we see the Ford Probe of Simulated Racing done up in a &#8220;29 Hours of LeMons&#8221; theme (apparently the number 24 was already taken), with the team dressed as LeMons Supreme Court judges.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/judgetheme-judgelove.jpg\" alt=\"judgetheme-judgelove\" title=\"judgetheme-judgelove\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/judgetheme-judgelove.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/judgetheme-judgelove-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nBack at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murileemartin.com\/LSP10\/InfineonMarch2010.html\">2010 Sears Pointless race<\/a>, this VW Golf team went with a &#8220;Judge Love&#8221; theme, with facial hair influenced by the chops sported by me and Judge Jonny. Disturbing! &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/uuh-bteam2-525x350.jpg\" alt=\"uuh-bteam2-525x350\" title=\"uuh-bteam2-525x350\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/uuh-bteam2-525x350.jpg 525w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/uuh-bteam2-525x350-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe B-Team went with a &#8220;Kill Phil&#8221; theme, in honor of my not-so-secret real given name. So far I&#8217;m still alive. Meanwhile, there&#8217;s some bunch in South Carolina preparing a &#8220;Phil My Ass&#8221; theme for their wretched Accord &#8220;race car.&#8221; I can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was a young Orange County performance artist, I never once imagined that someday I&#8217;d have a job that resulted in groups of grown men and women imitating me. Being a judge on the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court is such a job. In the photograph above, we see the Ford Probe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[441,445,443,327,193,131,330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}