{"id":1088,"date":"2008-04-27T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2008-04-27T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T13:41:08","slug":"outlaw-truck-nutz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/outlaw-truck-nutz\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlaw Truck Nutz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/pix\/centerbumper.jpg\" alt=\"Truck Nutz on my truck in September, 2006\" \/><br \/><center><small>My Truck Nutz<\/small><\/center><\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to be kidding, right? Which law maker would take time from their busy day and the real problems of the country to propose a bill to outlaw these harmless (and tasteless) decorations?<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican Sen. Cary Baker, a gun shop owner from Eustis, Florida, called the adornments offensive and proposed the ban. Motorists would be fined $60 for displaying the novelty items, which are known by brand names like &#8220;Truck Nutz&#8221; and resemble the south end of a bull moving north.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nBefore the great road trip of fall, 2006, <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/01\/timely-travel-preparations-silly-style\/\" target=\"_blank\" >my former leadership team at Sun made sure I was fully prepared and the Truck Nutz were the center piece of the day<\/a>. Anywhoo, I guess that let&#8217;s the Florida citizens know where their law makers are spending their time&#8230;Perhaps banning such items will help curtail politician&#8217;s desire for extra-curricular activities.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Truck Nutz You&#8217;ve got to be kidding, right? Which law maker would take time from their busy day and the real problems of the country to propose a bill to outlaw these harmless (and tasteless) decorations? Republican Sen. Cary Baker, a gun shop owner from Eustis, Florida, called the adornments offensive and proposed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}