{"id":3481,"date":"2006-12-10T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:16:00","slug":"as-if-millions-of-sophisticates-suddenly-cried-out-in-terror-and-were-suddenly-silenced-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/10\/as-if-millions-of-sophisticates-suddenly-cried-out-in-terror-and-were-suddenly-silenced-i\/","title":{"rendered":"As If Millions Of Sophisticates Suddenly Cried Out In Terror And Were Suddenly Silenced (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monster truck rallies.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushra.com\/news\/Article.2006-10-17.4844\" target=\"_new\">In Paris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six of the world&#8217;s most legendary Monster Jam\u00ae monster trucks had the fans at Bercy&#8217;s Omnisport Arena on their feet throughout four action-packed performances in the tour&#8217;s first-ever stop in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Grave Digger\u00ae, Hot Wheels\u00ae, El Toro Loco\u00ae, Slingshot, and the Superman and Batman monster trucks delighted the 20,000-plus fans at the Hot Wheels-sponsored Monster Jam. Grave Digger and the Hot Wheels monster trucks stole the show, earning multiple wins in the wheelie competition, the racing competition, and freestyle competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re continually amazed by the enthusiastic support we receive at every European Monster Jam tour stop,&#8221; said John Seasock, driver of the Hot Wheels monster truck. &#8220;Hot Wheels really supported our tour here in Paris, and I&#8217;m so happy to put together some wins for them here.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, some Frenchmen must have spontaneously combusted for this degradation of their celebrated culture.<\/p>\n<p>But, come to think of it, what exactly is that celebrated culture?  Nothing but imports.  I mean, the most famous painting in their fancypants museum was painted by an Eyetalian, wasn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monster truck rallies. In Paris. Six of the world&#8217;s most legendary Monster Jam\u00ae monster trucks had the fans at Bercy&#8217;s Omnisport Arena on their feet throughout four action-packed performances in the tour&#8217;s first-ever stop in Paris. Grave Digger\u00ae, Hot Wheels\u00ae, El Toro Loco\u00ae, Slingshot, and the Superman and Batman monster trucks delighted the 20,000-plus fans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18394,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions\/18394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}