{"id":166,"date":"2008-11-02T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T03:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=166"},"modified":"2008-11-02T23:37:11","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T03:37:11","slug":"saved-by-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2008\/11\/02\/saved-by-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Saved By Zero&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota earns a fat zero in my book for that awful ad campaign they&#8217;re running with that tag-line.<\/p>\n<p>Over and over and over again. Oh, I&#8217;m so sick of hearing it. And besides, what with the economy in the toilet it&#8217;s just what the weak need to hear: a pitch for a zero-percent loan to buy something so stupid as a car. Wake up, people. Do you really think a corporation is going to let you borrow their money for free? Oh, you&#8217;ll pay, one way or another. And <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> something you can take to the bank.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I&#8217;ll need to long-forget that abysmal ad before I&#8217;ll even consider buying anything from Toyota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota earns a fat zero in my book for that awful ad campaign they&#8217;re running with that tag-line. Over and over and over again. Oh, I&#8217;m so sick of hearing it. And besides, what with the economy in the toilet it&#8217;s just what the weak need to hear: a pitch for a zero-percent loan to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2008\/11\/02\/saved-by-zero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Saved By Zero&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[74,28,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}