{"id":2614,"date":"2009-06-16T19:52:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T23:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:27:00","slug":"aside-tires-and-conspiracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/aside-tires-and-conspiracies\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside: Tires and Conspiracies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m mildly interested in the medical issues surrounding tire dust and latex allergies that Peter Montague raises in his piece &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejnet.org\/rachel\/rehw439.htm\">Tire Dust<\/a>&#8220;, I&#8217;m much more interested in the history of automotive cabals explicitly destroying electric public transit, as that&#8217;s something I was previously unfamiliar with (and frankly, from this one source I don&#8217;t have enough to know if it&#8217;s something that can be tarred with the &#8220;conspiracy theory&#8221; brush, despite having footnotes <g>). Certainly the idea that Los Angeles was once a paragon of clean public transit, and ended up how it did by conscious planning, not by chance, is something that I&#8217;m going to have to look into.<\/g><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">While I&#8217;m mildly interested in the medical issues surrounding tire dust and latex allergies that Peter Montague raises in his piece &#8220;Tire Dust&#8220;, I&#8217;m much more interested in the history of automotive cabals explicitly destroying electric public transit, as that&#8217;s something I was previously unfamiliar with (and frankly, from this one source I don&#8217;t have enough to know if it&#8217;s&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/aside-tires-and-conspiracies\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[331],"tags":[327,270,330,104,282],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-aside","tag-conspiracy","tag-corporations","tag-secret-history","tag-the-road","tag-things-new-to-me","post_format-post-format-aside","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-Ga","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}