{"id":2090,"date":"2008-02-18T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2025-05-13T03:28:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:28:56","slug":"they-dont-make-em-like-they-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2090","title":{"rendered":"They Don&#8217;t Make &#8216;Em Like They Used To&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">(<i>Posting early, just because.<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>I caught the second half of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knight_Rider_%282008_film%29\">new Knight Rider<\/a> last night. It was <i>aight<\/i>, but it&#8217;s just not the same without the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cylon_%28Battlestar_Galactica%29\">Cylon<\/a>-esque <i>HWOOO-HWOOO<\/i> sound effect and the personality and dry wit of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Daniels\">William Daniels<\/a> as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KITT\">Kitt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with the fact that I am an ancient relic, incapable of accepting progress or change, here&#8217;s a picture of KITT from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knight_rider\">original Knighter Rider<\/a> TV series:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/KITTweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 640px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/KITTweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Vroom!<\/p>\n<p><i><b>EDIT (May 2025):<\/b> Wasn&#8217;t expecting Knight Rider to be so current in the mid 2020&#8217;s, but between the Transformers collab and KITT showing up in Fortnite, seemed like a good time to refresh this oldie. I whipped up a background homaging the opening credits and made some other little adjustments. HWOOO-HWOOO.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Posting early, just because.) I caught the second half of the new Knight Rider last night. It was aight, but it&#8217;s just not the same without the Cylon-esque HWOOO-HWOOO sound effect and the personality and dry wit of William Daniels as Kitt. In keeping with the fact that I am an ancient relic, incapable of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}