{"id":378,"date":"2008-01-16T13:41:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T13:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/01\/gratuitous-political-posting.html"},"modified":"2008-01-16T13:41:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T13:41:15","slug":"gratuitous-political-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/01\/gratuitous-political-posting.html","title":{"rendered":"Gratuitous political posting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;because I&#8217;m procrastinating.<br \/>\nWith the Michigan primary yesterday, there was, of course, much bloviating about how to rescue the Michigan economy, specifically, the auto industry.<br \/>\nI know the answer.\u00a0 Two words.<br \/>\n<em>Hybrid minivan.<\/em><br \/>\nToyota sells one overseas, and it is rumored to be slated for a US rollout this year, but I swear with gas probably never to go below $2.50 a gallon again and probably hovering around 3, it seems to me to be blindingly obvious that a hybrid minivan would electrify the US market.<br \/>\nBut then, they didn&#8217;t ask me, did they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;because I&#8217;m procrastinating. With the Michigan primary yesterday, there was, of course, much bloviating about how to rescue the Michigan economy, specifically, the auto industry. I know the answer.\u00a0 Two words. Hybrid minivan. Toyota sells one overseas, and it is rumored to be slated for a US rollout this year, but I swear with gas&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gratuitous political posting - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/01\/gratuitous-political-posting.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gratuitous political posting - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8230;because I&#8217;m procrastinating. 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