{"id":714,"date":"2003-07-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/11\/ask-john-what-does-initial-d-stand-for\/"},"modified":"2003-07-11T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-11T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-what-does-initial-d-stand-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-what-does-initial-d-stand-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: What Does Initial D Stand For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nI wanted to know what does &#8220;Initial D&#8221; mean in the manga\/anime &#8220;Initial D&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nOn a car&#8217;s transmission, the initial &#8220;D&#8221; stands for &#8220;Drive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A number of anime and manga fans argue that the &#8220;D&#8221; in Initial D stands for &#8220;drift,&#8221; a car racing technique used extensively in Initial D. However, apparently there is no official statement from series creator Shuichi Shigeno clarifying exactly what the &#8220;D&#8221; stands for, so logic seems to suggest that the &#8220;D&#8221; represents the actual automotive initial &#8220;D&#8221; for &#8220;Drive&#8221; rather than the more abstract &#8220;drift.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I wanted to know what does &#8220;Initial D&#8221; mean in the manga\/anime &#8220;Initial D&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}