{"id":263,"date":"2007-10-30T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/10\/30\/masculinity-and-class-ford-trucks\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T19:48:38","slug":"masculinity-and-class-ford-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/10\/30\/masculinity-and-class-ford-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Masculinity and Class: Ford Trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/ford.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127356334318324818\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2ford.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Clearly this ad is making a connection between being &#8220;tough&#8221; and doing blue-collar work. The implication is that desk jobs are not &#8220;tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s really fascinating about this: I found the ad in a magazine called Entrepreneur, a magazine clearly aimed at an upper-middle or upper class audience who do desk jobs. Since I find it unlikely they&#8217;re trying to actually alienate the readers of the ad, I&#8217;m guessing the point is to let these desk workers gain some &#8220;toughness&#8221; by buying a Ford truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly this ad is making a connection between being &#8220;tough&#8221; and doing blue-collar work. The implication is that desk jobs are not &#8220;tough.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s really fascinating about this: I found the ad in a magazine called Entrepreneur, a magazine clearly aimed at an upper-middle or upper class audience who do desk jobs. Since I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,55,2087,778,221],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-intersectionality","tag-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17111,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/17111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}