{"id":1855,"date":"2009-04-25T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/25\/2009-4-25-this-amazing-year-the-death-of-pontiac-html\/"},"modified":"2009-04-25T03:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T03:54:00","slug":"2009-4-25-this-amazing-year-the-death-of-pontiac-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/2009-4-25-this-amazing-year-the-death-of-pontiac-html\/","title":{"rendered":"This Amazing Year &#8211; The Death Of Pontiac"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/torrent.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/torrent.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Stock photo, but the right color!\" \/><\/a>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>It looks like General Motors, in a last-ditch effort to extend their line of guvmint credit, have made the decision to kill Pontiac. &#8220;See! We&#8217;re really trying! &#8230;to completely ruin our company! Happy now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a current Pontiac model (except the G8, oops) that&#8217;s actually unique in North America. Mom&#8217;s Pontiac Torrent, for example has sisters at the Chevrolet, GMC, Saturn and Suzuki dealerships. She&#8217;ll get parts during her government-sponsored warranty, and that&#8217;s good for all of us. No, really. You wouldn&#8217;t want to be on the wrong side of Mom and a warranty claim. If you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/kausfiles\/archive\/2009\/04\/24\/rattner-master-investor-or-master-spinner.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Rattner<\/a>, the head of the President&#8217;s Automotive Task Force, you may be under investigation for your private equity shenanigans, but your secretary isn&#8217;t paid enough to deal with the angry phone calls should the Torrent have a misfire. Just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But you cats are the best and brightest, right?<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, It looks like General Motors, in a last-ditch effort to extend their line of guvmint credit, have made the decision to kill Pontiac. &#8220;See! We&#8217;re really trying! &#8230;to completely ruin our company! Happy now?&#8221; Luckily, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a current Pontiac model (except the G8, oops) that&#8217;s actually unique in North America. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/2009-4-25-this-amazing-year-the-death-of-pontiac-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Amazing Year &#8211; The Death Of Pontiac&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,36],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cars","tag-this-amazing-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}