{"id":59,"date":"2002-10-25T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2002-10-25T22:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2002\/10\/25\/85603189\/"},"modified":"2002-10-25T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2002-10-25T22:48:12","slug":"85603189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/25\/85603189\/","title":{"rendered":"85603189"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>More advertisement hatred<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/pubmobile_horizontale_m.jpg\"><IMG SRC=\"\/blog\/images\/pubmobile_horizontale_p.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Mobile Ad on Peel St.- click to enlarge\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a bunch of appointments all around town today, so I decided to reserve a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communauto.com\/\">Communauto<\/a> car to avoid spending 4 hours in the m\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdtro. Instead, I spent a few looooong minutes stuck in traffic downtown. As I was admiring the autumn colors on Mont-Royal in the background, I noticed one of those damn rotating mobile advertisements, stuck in the middle of Peel street with the rest of us. I deeply hate these stupid car ads, and I know my hatred is shared by a lot of people. Do we really need more useless cars on the road? They add to air and light pollution, they&rsquo;re noisy and they block the way. They make me feel like boycotting the businesses that choose to advertise on them. What a stupid, inefficient way to get a product known. If you absolutely want to do mobile ads, then get those guys on roller-blades to do it. It&rsquo;s silly, but at least the guys (or girls) get exercise, money, and they don&rsquo;t take up too much space, except when they decide to skate on the sidewalk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More advertisement hatred I had a bunch of appointments all around town today, so I decided to reserve a Communauto car to avoid spending 4 hours in the m\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdtro. Instead, I spent a few looooong minutes stuck in traffic downtown. As I was admiring the autumn colors on Mont-Royal in the background, I noticed one&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/25\/85603189\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">85603189<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}