{"id":211,"date":"2017-04-01T16:32:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/?p=211"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:15:39","slug":"socialising-the-purplemeanie-kit-car-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/04\/01\/socialising-the-purplemeanie-kit-car-build\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialising the Purplemeanie Kit Car Build"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"565\" data-attachment-id=\"216\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/04\/01\/socialising-the-purplemeanie-kit-car-build\/purplemeanie-front-cropped\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Purplemeanie-Front-Cropped.png\" data-orig-size=\"741,698\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Purplemeanie Front Cropped\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Purplemeanie-Front-Cropped.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Purplemeanie-Front-Cropped-600x565.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Purplemeanie-Front-Cropped-600x565.png 600w, https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Purplemeanie-Front-Cropped.png 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Purplemeanie Engineering Team are building a kit car this summer. Get updates on Twitter, Facebook and on the Build Blog at www.purplemeanie.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Purplemeanie Engineering Team are building a kit car this summer. Get updates on Twitter, Facebook and on the Build Blog at www.purplemeanie.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Socialising the Purplemeanie Kit Car Build","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,51],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caterham-420r-build","category-caterham-blog","tag-prebulid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8yl38-3p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":322,"url":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/07\/10\/pre-build-update-6-delays-but-now-in-build\/","url_meta":{"origin":211,"position":0},"title":"Pre-build Update #6 \u2013 Delays but now &#8220;in build&#8221;","author":"John Martin","date":"July 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Breaking news: The Purplemeanie 420R is now \"in build\". 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