{"id":6839,"date":"2009-11-20T20:48:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T04:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2009-11-21T08:51:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T16:51:32","slug":"aptera-founder-just-on-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6839","title":{"rendered":"Aptera Founder Just On Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/xprize-aptera-470-0309.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/xprize-aptera-470-0309.jpg','popup','width=470,height=315,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/xprize-aptera-470-0309-tm.jpg\" height=\"134\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Xprize-Aptera-470-0309\" \/><\/a><i>Carlsbadistan<\/I> based electric car maker <strong>Aptera&#8217;s<\/strong> founder <strong>Steve Fambro<\/strong> tells <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/automotive\/new_cars\/4337060.html?nav=RSS20&#038;src=syn&#038;dom=yah_buzz&#038;mag=pop\" target=\"_blank\">Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/em><\/strong> that contrary to rumors quoted on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2009\/11\/aptera-founders-ousted-in-boardroom-showdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired&#8217;s Autopia blog<\/a><\/strong>, he was not ousted &#8220;in a boardroom showdown,&#8221; he&#8217;s simply on vacation until the end of the year. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think some people read into this situation a little further than they should have, &#8221; Fambro says. &#8220;Some folks were let go, and since they hadn&#8217;t seen me around\u2014they put two and two together and made a fairly large and incorrect assumption,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Since I started Aptera, I&#8217;ve had like three or four vacation days. One of them was after receiving a 2008 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award in NYC. So I need to take some time, and come back in the beginning of the new year.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great. We hope Mr. Fambro enjoys his vacation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/automotive\/new_cars\/4337060.html?nav=RSS20&#038;src=syn&#038;dom=yah_buzz&#038;mag=pop\" target=\"_blank\">Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan based electric car maker Aptera&#8217;s founder Steve Fambro tells Popular Mechanics that contrary to rumors quoted on Wired&#8217;s Autopia blog, he was not ousted &#8220;in a boardroom showdown,&#8221; he&#8217;s simply on vacation until the end of the year. &#8220;I think some people read into this situation a little further than they should have, &#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6842,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions\/6842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}