{"id":361088,"date":"2010-02-25T04:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T09:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69032"},"modified":"2010-02-25T04:30:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T09:30:06","slug":"dear-conservatives-you%e2%80%99ll-have-to-overcompensate-in-some-other-manner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/361088","title":{"rendered":"Dear Conservatives, you\u2019ll have to overcompensate in some other manner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because soon no one will be providing or selling hummers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;oh, sorry, providing or selling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2010\/02\/gm_to_end_hummer_after_sale_to_chinese_buyer_fails.php?ref=fpblg\">Hummers\u2122<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>General Motors says it will discontinue Hummer after its bid to sell the brand to a Chinese company failed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, the offensive symbol of excess and primary resting place of yellow ribbon magnets and bumper stickers proclaiming certain colors don&#8217;t run will expire &#8212; the end of a ridiculous and offensive era.<\/p>\n<p>Good riddance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69034\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 456px\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-69034\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/25\/dear-conservatives-youll-have-to-overcompensate-in-some-other-manner\/hummer\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69034\" title=\"hummer\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/02\/hummer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The prototypical Hummer bling<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>(pic from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kevlar\/2394483005\/in\/set-72157601276105667\/\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69032&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_69032\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because soon no one will be providing or selling hummers&#8230; &#8230;oh, sorry, providing or selling Hummers\u2122. General Motors says it will discontinue Hummer after its bid to sell the brand to a Chinese company failed. Yes, the offensive symbol of excess and primary resting place of yellow ribbon magnets and bumper stickers proclaiming certain colors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}