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    "title": "Cars Let Us Get Away With Our Lives",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2012-07-26 18:39:26 UTC",
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        "2012-07-26 18:39:26 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Cars didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We\u00e2\u0080\u0099re way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy\u00e2\u0080\u0099s lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t forced to surrender, we were able to retreat.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203771904574173401767415892.html\">The End of Our Love Affair with Cars - WSJ.com</a></em>.</p>\n"
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