{"id":956,"date":"2013-09-09T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2013\/09\/09\/130909_floatingtruck\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T15:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T20:07:04","slug":"130909_floatingtruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/09\/09\/130909_floatingtruck\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens among us seeking steel-belted radials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe they&#8217;re just humans from an alternate, rubber-worshipping universe, or visitors from an algoresque future without tyres. Who knows? But whatever their origins, while we can&#8217;t necessarily judge their motives for needing the wheels on one of our company trucks residing in our company parking lot, we are left with one niggling question: wasn&#8217;t it enough to take our rims&#8230;why did they also have to prove their technological superiority?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/floatingtruck.jpg\" alt=\"Floating Pickup\"><\/p>\n<p>Fox Mulder, we need you now, more than ever.<\/p>\n<p><i>Note: Some of this actually happened. Really. Would I kid you?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe they&#8217;re just humans from an alternate, rubber-worshipping universe, or visitors from an algoresque future without tyres. Who knows? But whatever their origins, while we can&#8217;t necessarily judge their motives for needing the wheels on one of our company trucks residing in our company parking lot, we are left with one niggling question: wasn&#8217;t&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/09\/09\/130909_floatingtruck\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aliens among us seeking steel-belted radials<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","category-midland-odessa","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9508,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/9508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}