{"id":3642,"date":"2009-03-17T06:56:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2009-03-17T06:56:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:56:26","slug":"lost-in-the-supermarket-taste-the-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lost-in-the-supermarket-taste-the-truck","title":{"rendered":"Lost in the Supermarket: Taste the truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My old man used to tell the story about how my brother &amp; I gave a big f*** you to Tonka Trucks&#8217; claim of indestructibility. To be fair, I&#8217;m not sure the manufacturers really expected 3-year-olds to have mastered power tools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/3359523591\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Chewable nuggets of trucks!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3563\/3359523591_b85495b63e.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"Chewable nuggets of trucks!\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just think it&#8217;s weird that you&#8217;d want to feed children pieces of rubber shaped like the toys that you don&#8217;t want them eating. Also, they&#8217;re pieces of rubber shaped like industrial trucks. Yet another reason I don&#8217;t have kids, I guess.<\/p>\n<p><em>See the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/lost-in-the-supermarket\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lost in the Supermarket<\/a> series<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old man used to tell the story about how my brother &amp; I gave a big f*** you to Tonka Trucks&#8217; claim of indestructibility. To be fair, I&#8217;m not sure the manufacturers really expected 3-year-olds to have mastered power tools. I just think it&#8217;s weird that you&#8217;d want to feed children pieces of rubber &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lost-in-the-supermarket-taste-the-truck\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lost in the Supermarket: Taste the 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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[379],"tags":[603],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-in-the-supermarket","tag-tonka"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-WK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4204,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lost-in-the-supermarket-through-the-s-bend","url_meta":{"origin":3642,"position":0},"title":"Lost in the Supermarket: Through the &#8216;S&#8217; Bend","author":"Gil","date":"July 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In response to popular demand (okay, one commenter), Lost in the Supermarket is back! 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