{"id":73,"date":"2006-08-22T13:45:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T13:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=73"},"modified":"2008-04-07T02:22:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T02:22:16","slug":"pink-carnation-and-a-pickup-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"pink carnation and a pickup truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Alberta, it seems that everyone and their dog drives a pickup truck. With all the farming, construction, oil related work, etc. it&#8217;s not hard to understand why trucks are a favoured vehicle. Many are mud splattered, battered, and loaded down with a tonne of equipment. They&#8217;re true work trucks.<\/p>\n<p>A good chunk of those that aren&#8217;t work trucks still bear a lot of the scars trucks are meant to display. My own baby truck has a pretty substantial dent in the side and hood from misadventures and the like. If they were on a car, these dents would have me rushing to the body shop to have it fixed. On my truck, they seem like minor blemishes that tell the story of it&#8217;s adventures and seem to add to the aethetics of the vehicle rather than taking away from it.<\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while you see something strange on the roads that really just seems to defy the whole reasoning behind owning a pickup. I just don&#8217;t see the point in purchasing the Lincoln or Cadillac versions of the vehicle. No matter that these trucks just don&#8217;t <em>look<\/em> right&#8230;I just can visualize the owners of a Lincoln or Cadillac (or any other high-end car brand) truck shrugging their shoulders and saying &#8220;<em>oh well<\/em>&#8221; if there truck were to mysteriously develop a dent like Fords, Dodges, GMC&#8217;s and Chevy&#8217;s have been known to do. I certainly can&#8217;t picture them living by the philosophy that &#8220;<em>the first dent&#8217;s mine, all others don&#8217;t matter&#8230;<\/em>&#8220;. And as hard as I try, I can&#8217;t imagine one of these odd looking designer trucks being loading with wood, hay, steel piping, sod, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t see the point of paying so much money for a truck if you&#8217;re not going to use it as intended &#8211; to haul, pull, drag, throw crap in or on, etc. I&#8217;m soooo confused. Let&#8217;s not get me started on the bright pink low rider trucks that look like they were spawned from a pepto bismal bottle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"technoratitag\"><span class=\"technoratitag\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/pickup\" rel=\"tag\">pickup<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/truck\" rel=\"tag\">truck<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/pickup+truck\" rel=\"tag\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Alberta, it seems that everyone and their dog drives a pickup truck. With all the farming, construction, oil related work, etc. it&#8217;s not hard to understand why trucks are a favoured vehicle. Many are mud splattered, battered, and loaded down with a tonne of equipment. They&#8217;re true work trucks. A good chunk of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}