{"id":118535,"date":"2021-01-15T00:24:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T08:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/guy-spends-7-years-and-121k-to-build-working-akira-motorcycle"},"modified":"2021-01-15T00:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T08:24:29","slug":"guy-spends-7-years-and-121k-to-build-working-akira-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/guy-spends-7-years-and-121k-to-build-working-akira-motorcycle","title":{"rendered":"Guy spends 7 years and $121K to build working Akira motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/At8ZQethrsY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2012<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you\u2019ve seen (or read) Katsuhiro Otomo\u2019s classic <em>Akira<\/em>, you have, at one point or another, thought, \u201cMan, I\u2019d love to tear it up on Kaneda\u2019s motorcycle.\u201d One dude in Japan spent 10 million yen to make that dream come true, and he\u2019s currently riding it across the Land of the Rising Sun to raise money for charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2012 If you\u2019ve seen (or read) Katsuhiro Otomo\u2019s classic Akira, you have, at one point or another, thought, \u201cMan, I\u2019d love to tear it up on Kaneda\u2019s motorcycle.\u201d One dude in Japan spent 10 million yen to make that dream come true, and he\u2019s currently riding it across the Land of the Rising Sun [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}