{"id":288,"date":"2003-01-08T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-08T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=288"},"modified":"2003-01-08T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-08T19:15:00","slug":"288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforfuelefficientcars.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americansforfuelefficientcars.org\/images\/button_stopterror.gif\" width=\"123\" height=\"105\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Stop Supporting Terrorism:  What is your S.U.V. doing to the World?\" align=\"left\"><\/a>Apparently a backlash against S.U.V.&#8217;s is picking up momentum.  Can&#8217;t come too soon for me:  it&#8217;s ridiculous (1) that these things are treated as pickups (2) that pickups are allowed to have crappy fuel mileage and (3) that governments aren&#8217;t making reduction of oil usage a national priority.  There are now a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforfuelefficientcars.org\/ads\/default.htm\">couple of ads<\/a> on U.S. television drawing the connection between S.U.V.&#8217;s and the War on Terror, and I hope they&#8217;re making Mr. Bush&#8217;s friends in Texas squirm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently a backlash against S.U.V.&#8217;s is picking up momentum. Can&#8217;t come too soon for me: it&#8217;s ridiculous (1) that these things are treated as pickups (2) that pickups are allowed to have crappy fuel mileage and (3) that governments aren&#8217;t making reduction of oil usage a national priority. There are now a couple of ads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}