{"id":983,"date":"2006-02-25T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=983"},"modified":"2006-03-04T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T14:23:22","slug":"unpimp-your-auto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Unpimp your &#8216;auto&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span> couple of weeks ago, Alfons introduced me to the term &#8216;pimp your car&#8217;. I had never heard of it before, but after explanation, I understood it had something to do with adding fancy accessoiries to your car. Or rather, as a highly popular MTV show calls it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/onair\/dyn\/pimp_my_ride\/series.jhtml\">&#8216;Pimp my ride&#8217;<\/a>. Obviously, we&#8217;re missing out over here in rural Nova Scotia. First of all we don&#8217;t have MTV because we only have the package that comes with CNN. Secondly, I always thought pimping had something to do with &#8216;selling ladies&#8217; services to third parties&#8217;. As in suply and demand economics. You get the picture.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyway: this morning, while browsing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\">YouTube site<\/a>, I ran accross these (cleverly named and absolutely hilarious) VW commercials called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search=unpimp&#038;search_type=search_videos&#038;search=Search\">&#8216;Unpimp your car&#8217;<\/a>, it finally occured to me what exactly Alfons was talking about.\n<\/p>\n<p><small>I&#8217;m also pretty sure that that actor in that commercial is a well known actor. Did he play  in the  Meyer movies? VW is in da house!<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, Alfons introduced me to the term &#8216;pimp your car&#8217;. I had never heard of it before, but after explanation, I understood it had something to do with adding fancy accessoiries to your car. Or rather, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=983\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}