{"id":1217,"date":"2005-04-02T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2005-04-02T00:01:22","modified_gmt":"2005-04-02T00:01:22","slug":"politics_on_whe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Politics on Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/04\/01\/automobiles\/01red.html?ex=1270011600&#038;en=6eb3a66907e78b2f&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">John Tieney<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>By analyzing new-car sales, surveying car owners and keeping count of political bumper stickers, they are identifying the differences between Democratic cars and Republican ones.<br \/>\nAmong their findings: buyers of American cars tend to be Republican &#8211; except, for some reason, those who buy Pontiacs, who tend to be Democrats. Foreign-brand compact cars are usually bought by Democrats &#8211; but not Mini Coopers, which are bought by almost equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans. And Volvos may not actually represent quite what you think.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Tieney: By analyzing new-car sales, surveying car owners and keeping count of political bumper stickers, they are identifying the differences between Democratic cars and Republican ones. Among their findings: buyers of American cars tend to be Republican &#8211; except, for some reason, those who buy Pontiacs, who tend to be Democrats. Foreign-brand compact cars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}