{"id":43038,"date":"2025-11-29T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=43038"},"modified":"2025-11-29T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T01:58:09","slug":"shawn-micallef-this-truck-ad-shows-why-toronto-needs-smaller-vehicles-if-only-the-carmakers-wanted-to-sell-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43038","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Micallef: This truck ad shows why Toronto needs smaller vehicles \u2014 if only the carmakers wanted to sell them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6929bcb2cbefc.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"209\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">A car comically overloaded with plywood? It\u2019s a good ad for a pickup \u2014 but also a sign of the incredible amount of money, weight and energy being wasted on<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/contributors\/this-truck-ad-shows-why-toronto-needs-smaller-vehicles-if-only-the-carmakers-wanted-to\/article_bf994dd0-b754-4ee7-a872-fc2d7549741a.html\">Shawn Micallef: This truck ad shows why Toronto needs smaller vehicles \u2014 if only the carmakers wanted to sell them<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A car comically overloaded with plywood? It\u2019s a good ad for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[140,431,733],"class_list":["post-43038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-paul","tag-toronto","tag-trucks","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43041,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43038\/revisions\/43041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}