{"id":2103,"date":"2012-09-11T23:06:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T23:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2023-07-12T19:37:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T19:37:01","slug":"truck-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/truck-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/7977898649\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8454\/7977898649_342f5462ba.jpg\" alt=\"Truck nuts\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To me, truck nuts always seemed both unnecessarily vulgar and not vulgar enough &#8212; it&#8217;s a vile gesture to give your vehicle balls, and yet testicles without a penis is clearly an anatomical abnormality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I was delighted to see a local&#8217;s take on the &#8220;truck nuts&#8221; fad that dispenses with the vulgar aspect altogether, replacing it with clever wordplay. Alternately, one could argue that hex nuts are more anatomically correct on a metal vehicle. Either way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As my co-worker (who pointed these nuts out to me) said: &#8220;Truck nuts; you&#8217;re doing it right.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Spotted at 17th and South Van Ness.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me, truck nuts always seemed both unnecessarily vulgar and not vulgar enough &#8212; it&#8217;s a vile gesture to give your vehicle balls, and yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Truck nuts - MrEricSir.com","description":"To me, truck nuts always seemed both unnecessarily vulgar and not vulgar enough -- it's a vile gesture to give your vehicle balls, and yet testicles without a p"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[825,38,824],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-balls","tag-photos","tag-trucknuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9889,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/9889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}