{"id":638,"date":"2009-06-14T20:34:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T19:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/?p=638"},"modified":"2010-11-09T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T11:22:46","slug":"rendezvous-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/travel\/rendezvous-in-paris","title":{"rendered":"Rendezvous in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Update:<\/span> The video doesn&#8217;t seem to be on YouTube any more but a copy can still be seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/shortsbay.com\/film\/cetait-un-rendez-vous\">this website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"580\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/F0I6tJCJX1I&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"580\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/F0I6tJCJX1I&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\n<p>On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris.<\/p>\n\n<p>The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur. No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit. The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 mph in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.<\/p>\n\n<p>Wikipedia entry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: The video doesn&#8217;t seem to be on YouTube any more but a copy can still be seen on this website. On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/travel\/rendezvous-in-paris\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rendezvous in Paris&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[57,15,56,311],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-driving","tag-france","tag-paris","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}