{"id":176266,"date":"2020-07-25T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/25\/ive-heard-of-truck-nuts-but-not-valve-stem-cover-penises\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T23:35:00","slug":"ive-heard-of-truck-nuts-but-not-valve-stem-cover-penises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/25\/ive-heard-of-truck-nuts-but-not-valve-stem-cover-penises\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Heard of Truck Nuts, but Not Valve-Stem Cover Penises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/LmZEWcR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/LmZEWcR.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Parked next to me<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/IOJuedc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/IOJuedc.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>Wait \u2026\u2026\u2026 Is that what I think it is?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/nF0ZX26.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/nF0ZX26.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>Yes, it is, and it is circumcised<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I picked up Nat from camp this morning, the counselors had a camping night together, and she wanted to pick up a bite at the local convenience store, Wally&#8217;s Country Store.<\/p>\n<p>So, I parked while she masked up and went in.<\/p>\n<p>I looked to my left, and noticed something odd about the car next to me:&nbsp; The valve stem covers appeared to be penises.<\/p>\n<p>This, much like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Truck_nuts\">truck nutz<\/a>, it appears to be a metaphor for American society today.<\/p>\n<p>They are almost Trumpian in their crassness, though I am aware that truck nutz predate Donald Trump&#8217;s political aspirations by decades.<\/p>\n<p>How is this a thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parked next to me Wait \u2026\u2026\u2026 Is that what I think it is? Yes, it is, and it is circumcised I picked up Nat from camp this morning, the counselors had a camping night together, and she wanted to pick up a bite at the local convenience store, Wally&#8217;s Country Store. So, I parked while &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[542,588,418,595,471],"class_list":["post-176266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-automobile","tag-fail","tag-photographs","tag-society","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}