{"id":189,"date":"2004-09-23T11:27:11","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T15:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/09\/23\/cars-big-enough-for-a-house\/"},"modified":"2011-06-18T23:40:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T03:40:50","slug":"cars-big-enough-for-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/09\/cars-big-enough-for-a-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars big enough for a house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a210'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 1983, when our family bought a new, brown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldzone.net\/auto\/olds\/cutlass\/ciera\/83.html\">Cutlass Ciera<\/a>,<br \/>\nmy mom stated that the car would be like another room of the house &#8212;<br \/>\nshe could take naps or I could do my homework there. She was probably<br \/>\ntrying to justify the impact the purchase would have on our quiescent<br \/>\nfamily budget, but as I was watching drivers applying makeup in their<br \/>\ncars this morning on their way to work, I realized she might have been<br \/>\nright about the meaning of a car to Americans. Maybe one reason for our<br \/>\ndestructive attachment to large vehicles stems from the fact that they<br \/>\naren&#8217;t just a way to get from here to there: they actually <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">are <\/span>living quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1983, when our family bought a new, brown Cutlass Ciera, my mom stated that the car would be like another room of the house &#8212; she could take naps or I could do my homework there. She was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/09\/cars-big-enough-for-a-house\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}