{"id":3368,"date":"2013-05-15T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:10:14","slug":"why-fire-trucks-used-to-be-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/why-fire-trucks-used-to-be-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Why fire trucks (used to be) red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a girl, my father taught me why fire trucks are red. Of course, now that fire trucks come in yellow and white colors too, this story will eventually need an upgrade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/why-fire-trucks-used-to-be-red\/lake-benton-fire-truck\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3370\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lake-Benton-Fire-Truck-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"old red fire truck\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lake-Benton-Fire-Truck-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lake-Benton-Fire-Truck-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lake-Benton-Fire-Truck-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fire trucks are red because:<br \/>\nThey have 4 wheels.<br \/>\n4 x 3 is 12.<br \/>\n12 inches is a ruler.<br \/>\nQueen Mary was a ruler.<br \/>\nQueen Mary was a ship.<br \/>\nShips sail the seas.<br \/>\nThere are fish in the seas.<br \/>\nFish have fins.<br \/>\nThe Finns fought the Russians.<br \/>\nRussians are Red.<br \/>\nAnd fire trucks are always rushin&#8217;;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why fire trucks are red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a girl, my father taught me why fire trucks are red. Of course, now that fire trucks come in yellow and white colors too, this story will eventually need an upgrade. Fire trucks are red because: They have 4 wheels. 4 x 3 is 12. 12 inches is a ruler. Queen Mary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/why-fire-trucks-used-to-be-red\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why fire trucks (used to be) red&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[1095,1091,1092,1093,1094],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-art-culture","tag-finns","tag-fire-trucks","tag-red","tag-rushin","tag-russian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}