{"id":98903,"date":"2019-05-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=98903"},"modified":"2023-09-23T17:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T00:30:01","slug":"spotted-on-the-roadside-autoeater-in-atlanta-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/spotted-on-the-roadside-autoeater-in-atlanta-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted on the Roadside: AutoEater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98963\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-1-of-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-1-of-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-1-of-5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-1-of-5-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98973\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-2-of-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-2-of-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-2-of-5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-2-of-5-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98983\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-3-of-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-3-of-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-3-of-5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-3-of-5-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-99003\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-5-of-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-5-of-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-5-of-5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/auto-eater-5-of-5-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Autoeater is 16 tons of Italian marble encasing a Fiat Panda and resembles nothing so much as a car being devoured by a giant condom. Or a really emaciated sandworm eating the only Fiat on Arrakis. The minor controversy over what it resembles reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/spotted-on-the-roadside-the-scripps-turd-in-la-jolla-ca\/\">another piece of public art I blogged about in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spotted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@33.7817896,-84.3839342,3a,75y,50.55h,91.08t\/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1seBYHk5PITskGif6Kci2kPw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DeBYHk5PITskGif6Kci2kPw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D23.781404%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656\">10th st NE in Atlanta, GA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,513,129,102,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgia","category-south","category-spotted-on-the-roadside","category-travel","category-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spotted on the Roadside: AutoEater &#8226; 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