{"id":608,"date":"2005-05-06T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2005-05-07T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/06\/m-m-monster-pickup-truck\/"},"modified":"2005-05-06T19:35:24","modified_gmt":"2005-05-07T00:35:24","slug":"m-m-monster-pickup-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/06\/m-m-monster-pickup-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"M-M-Monster Pickup Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/images\/wordpress-entries\/international-cxt.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=850,height=660,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/images\/wordpress-entries\/international-cxt-small.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"344\" alt=\"International CXT Pickup Truck\" title=\"Click Image to Enlarge\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>click image to enlarge<\/small><\/p>\n<p>I saw an actual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationaldelivers.com\/site_layout\/xtfamily\/cxt.asp\">International  CXT<\/a> driving around town today.  <\/p>\n<p>These $115,000 beasts make even H2 Hummers look small, towering 2 feet above them with a length 4&#189; feet longer.  The CXT weighs twice as much as a fully loaded H2, which makes my tiny little Fiero feel even smaller.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m generally pretty tolerant of the country&#8217;s SUV obsession, believing that owners of oversized vehicles punish themselves more than enough through the weekly price of filling up their gargantuan gas tanks.<\/p>\n<p>Still, seeing one of these CXT behemoths rolling through suburban streets leaves me not knowing whether I should laugh or cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click image to enlarge I saw an actual International CXT driving around town today. These $115,000 beasts make even H2 Hummers look small, towering 2 feet above them with a length 4&#189; feet longer. The CXT weighs twice as much as a fully loaded H2, which makes my tiny little Fiero feel even smaller. I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/06\/m-m-monster-pickup-truck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;M-M-Monster Pickup Truck&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}