{"id":7201,"date":"2013-05-09T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=7201"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:40:08","slug":"when-everything-old-is-new-again-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=7201","title":{"rendered":"When everything old is new again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of May the Fourth (force) is an Audi commercial that just might win awards. &nbsp;I have to pay tribute to the creative minds that dream up these amazing scenes. Who would have thought that you could &#8220;star&#8221; Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto in a car commercial that included a rendition of the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the video.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<object><\/object><\/div>\n<p>\nAnd here is a link to some awesome comments worth reading. They&#8217;re at the bottom of the video, but on this site not YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/io9.com\/old-spock-battles-new-spock-in-the-greatest-car-commerc-493836696<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, if I didn&#8217;t have my 1998 Honda Civic, which incidentally has just lost its chrome logo &#8211; maybe getting a little old too &#8211; I would be tempted to replace it with an Audi based on this commercial. If I had the money, that is. Alas, I&#8217;m a sucker for a good ad &#8211; believe me I can be &#8220;had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/civic-1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"108\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/civic-1.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>However, if I could really have my &#8220;druthers&#8221; I would have this one! The picture was posted in my photography group by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100002300185299&amp;hc_location=stream\">Steve Brown<\/a>. It&#8217;s a keeper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhJAALZbz0ikrqdxLQnl-dSixY3f0XO3xVtovJzNXQXsinC-rCs5-06euvLDs-hgsJq5uIxOoCwS_k1Zwkp2scuc_omgaGqkIXmROVD0Gw46W87GTuC6zumDSr-DgvxTBKjCwdkHQ\/s320\/coke+car.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhJAALZbz0ikrqdxLQnl-dSixY3f0XO3xVtovJzNXQXsinC-rCs5-06euvLDs-hgsJq5uIxOoCwS_k1Zwkp2scuc_omgaGqkIXmROVD0Gw46W87GTuC6zumDSr-DgvxTBKjCwdkHQ\/s320\/coke+car.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nI don&#8217;t think that anyone would ever do an ad for this car. Maybe a little too retro with the Fonz and Happy Days. It&#8217;s interesting how Star Trek survived and prospered &#8211; the magic of other worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Have an amazing day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of May the Fourth (force) is an Audi commercial that just might win awards. &nbsp;I have to pay tribute to the creative minds that dream up these amazing scenes. Who would have thought that you could &#8220;star&#8221; Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto in a car commercial that included a rendition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7204,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/revisions\/7204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}