{"id":1291,"date":"2007-01-25T22:36:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T03:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2007-01-25T22:36:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T03:36:49","slug":"another-icon-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"Another icon in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently my friends at Ford have been taping a couple pictures of Grover Cleveland to every car for the last year.<\/p>\n<p>Ford fed and clothed and housed me for the first 18 years of my life. And did so well. Dad worked at the Chicago Heights plant, quite literally, until he died. Had a grabber running up the stairs to his locker. Mom lives off his pension, what there was of it- he wasn&#8217;t quite at optimal retirement age yet. SHe also has his insurcance benefits, thank god.<\/p>\n<p>Fact is, ford has made a good vehicle for a long damned time, and though the ford\/chevy thing is always a matter of preference, (I&#8217;ve had both) I always keep coming back to my blue oval. <\/p>\n<p>I think they have management good enough to turn them around. They&#8217;ve done so before. They will have to work hard to do so. I hope they succeed- I like toyota, honda, etc., but an America without Ford is&#8230; well, it&#8217;s unthinkable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently my friends at Ford have been taping a couple pictures of Grover Cleveland to every car for the last year. Ford fed and clothed and housed me for the first 18 years of my life. And did so well. Dad worked at the Chicago Heights plant, quite literally, until he died. Had a grabber [&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-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}