{"id":920,"date":"2002-03-01T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-01T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=920"},"modified":"2002-03-01T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-01T19:25:00","slug":"minivan-suv-slaughter-of-the-innocents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/03\/01\/15\/25\/minivan-suv-slaughter-of-the-innocents\/","title":{"rendered":"Minivan SUV Slaughter of the Innocents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Future social historians will undoubtedly find one of the major paradoxes of this age was the purchase of <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/usatoday\/20020301\/ts_usatoday\/3906096&#038;printer=1\">kid-killing <\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/SUVs\/Dangers%20lurk%20for%20kids%20in%20popular%20third-row%20seats.html\">minivans<\/a> by child-transporting parents.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/usatoday\/20020301\/ts_usatoday\/3906096&#038;printer=1\">When a minivan with a third-row occupant is hit from behind, the occupant is killed half the time,<\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/SUVs\/Dangers%20lurk%20for%20kids%20in%20popul\na\nr%20third-row%20seats.html\"> according to a Ford Motor analysis &#8230; when somebody is back there, it&#8217;s usually a child. Adults won&#8217;t even fit many of the latest third-row designs.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Of course, paradoxes and automobiles are nothing new. Eco-conscious SUV drivers crack me up, especially when they stick little patriotic US flags on their oversize ugly behemoths &#8211; the flags reduce already terrible fuel efficiency by another few mpg, making the US even more dependent on the Saudis. And the &#8220;futuristic&#8221; 1950s and 1960s growth of body fins and dashboard protruberances impaled and ripped the tender flesh of drivers and pedestrians alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future social historians will undoubtedly find one of the major paradoxes of this age was the purchase of kid-killing minivans by child-transporting parents. When a minivan with a third-row occupant is hit from behind,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}