{"id":1838,"date":"2007-08-14T20:55:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T00:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2007-08-14T20:55:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T00:55:32","slug":"what-terrorists-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1838","title":{"rendered":"What Terrorists Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xent.com\/pipermail\/fork\/2001-November\/006723.html\">NY Times reports<\/a> [7 years ago]:<\/p>\n<ul>\nToyota's unease at being associated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda is evident. In its September statement, the company said, \"Toyota does not have a sales or distribution channel in Afghanistan, and we do not export vehicles to that country.\" <\/p>\n<p>Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week. \"It is not our proudest product placement,\" he said. \"But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability.\" <\/ul>\n<p>Via the always fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/shimmykat.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/constitutional-crisis-part-2-of-2.html\">ShimmyKat<\/a> - who I think is a Siberian, just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?cat=2\">Tricksey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?cat=20\">Pepper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times reports [7 years ago]: Toyota's unease at being associated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda is evident. In its September statement, the company said, \"Toyota does not have a sales or distribution channel in Afghanistan, and we do not export vehicles to that country.\" Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}