{"id":7517,"date":"2018-07-20T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T21:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7517"},"modified":"2018-07-22T13:52:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T19:52:02","slug":"vw-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7517","title":{"rendered":"VW: Then, and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then: Think Small<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/07\/vw_small_1960s.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/07\/vw_small_1960s.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Think_Small\">Wikipedia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volkswagen_Beetle\">Beetle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2018: Think Big<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/07\/vw_big_2018_amuzapp_dot_com.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/07\/vw_big_2018_amuzapp_dot_com.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=VW+Atlas&#038;t=h_&#038;ia=web\">VW Atlas SUV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;size matters&#8221; billboard is, ironically, next to a bike shop and, perhaps more tellingly, a Volvo and Range Rover car dealership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volkswagen\">Volkswagen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ivan_Hirst\">Ivan Hurst<\/a> and an interesting book about the much smaller <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/12\/18\/vw-camper-van-a-biography.html\">Camper Van<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Transporter pickup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2920\">photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6966\">won&#8217;t go in reverse<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>A few campers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6946\">Alaska&#8217;s Resurrection Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_and_Mighty_(book)\">High and Mighty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then: Think Small Wikipedia Beetle 2018: Think Big VW Atlas SUV. The &#8220;size matters&#8221; billboard is, ironically, next to a bike shop and, perhaps more tellingly, a Volvo and Range Rover car dealership. Volkswagen, Ivan Hurst and an interesting book about the much smaller Camper Van. Transporter pickup photo. &#8220;It currently won&#8217;t go in reverse&#8220;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7522,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions\/7522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}