{"id":553,"date":"2009-10-08T21:10:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T05:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2009-10-08T21:10:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T05:10:29","slug":"mr-t-with-a-blowtorch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/mr-t-with-a-blowtorch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. T With a Blowtorch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess we now know where the A-Team got the work done on their custom van. With the red spoiler on the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the amount of automatic weapons fire that van was subjected to each week, I&#8217;m guessing these guys have Bondo delivered by the pallet-load&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_554\" style=\"width: 689px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Mr-T-the-auto-mechanic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-554\" class=\"size-large wp-image-554 lazyload\" title=\"Mr T the auto mechanic\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Mr-T-the-auto-mechanic-888x1024.jpg\" alt=\"I wonder what Spanish translation they used for &quot;I pity the fool.&quot; \" width=\"679\" height=\"772\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 679px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 679\/772;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I wonder what Spanish translation they used for &quot;I pity the fool.&quot; <\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s strange when you see what cultural icons we&#8217;ve long since moved past in the U.S. still have cultural resonance in countries that are still being force-fed our TV re-runs.\u00c2\u00a0 When I lived in Venezuela, I remember that every night, on some channel, the old WWII show &#8220;The Rat Patrol&#8221; was on. I used to see kids playing games with their little toy trucks, pretending to be the intrepid desert warriors who somehow managed to knock out heavily armored Panzers with small-arms fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess we now know where the A-Team got the work done on their custom van. With the red spoiler on the roof. Considering the amount of automatic weapons fire that van was subjected to each week, I&#8217;m guessing these guys have Bondo delivered by the pallet-load&#8230; It&#8217;s strange when you see what cultural icons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[866,1],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-amusing-nonsense","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}