{"id":12618,"date":"2011-06-02T06:59:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T10:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12618"},"modified":"2011-06-02T06:59:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T10:59:59","slug":"haug-laughs-off-joke-about-schumachers-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/haug-laughs-off-joke-about-schumachers-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Haug laughs off joke about Schumacher&#8217;s age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Haug has laughed off a joke made by Mercedes mechanics about Michael Schumacher&#8217;s advancing years.<\/p>\n<p>A Dutch website this week revealed that the mechanics had pasted a &#8216;photoshopped&#8217; photograph of the 42-year-old German to the garage toilet at Monaco depicting Schumacher as wrinkled, grey and bald.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the wall there are many funny photos,&#8221; Mercedes&#8217; motor racing vice president Haug explained to Bild newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even those who love each other must never forget how to laugh at themselves,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Haug defended the right of the team&#8217;s hard-working mechanics to have a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If our boys did not have a sense of humour, they wouldn&#8217;t have been able to repair a badly crashed car in half an hour,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Haug has laughed off a joke made by Mercedes mechanics about Michael Schumacher&#8217;s advancing years. A Dutch website this week revealed that the mechanics had pasted a &#8216;photoshopped&#8217; photograph of the 42-year-old German to the garage toilet at Monaco depicting Schumacher as wrinkled, grey and bald. &#8220;On the wall there are many funny photos,&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,92,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12619,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions\/12619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}