{"id":67678,"date":"2024-10-14T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=67678"},"modified":"2024-10-13T09:48:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T13:48:06","slug":"qotd-americans-and-their-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/10\/14\/qotd-americans-and-their-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Americans and their cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Given that, for &#8220;Americans&#8221;, cars are a pretty good proxy for personality. What you drive, and more importantly how you drive, shows everyone else on the road the state of your soul. There are entire models of car \u2014 Toyota Priuses (Prii?), Subaru Outbacks \u2014 that are only driven by SJWs. Karen drives a late-model SUV, almost universally, but if she&#8217;s forced to drive a minivan or, God help us all, a standard four-door, she&#8217;ll festoon it with a thousand of those &#8220;passive-aggressive&#8221; (or whatever we end up calling them) bumper stickers: My broomstick is in the shop. Stick-figure families in rainbow colors. Hate is not a family value (often juxtaposed, with brain-breaking obtuseness, next to one wishing that various &#8220;conservatives&#8221; would die in fires). And so on.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/cars-bikes-motorcycles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">-->&#8220;Cars, Bikes, Motorcycles&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2021-07-25.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that, for &#8220;Americans&#8221;, cars are a pretty good proxy for personality. What you drive, and more importantly how you drive, shows everyone else on the road the state of your soul. There are entire models of car \u2014 Toyota Priuses (Prii?), Subaru Outbacks \u2014 that are only driven by SJWs. Karen drives a late-model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41,13],"tags":[111,1462],"class_list":["post-67678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-cars","tag-severian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hBA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91915,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67678\/revisions\/91915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}