{"id":2769,"date":"2008-09-20T01:45:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T06:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2013-05-13T16:18:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T21:18:47","slug":"world-war-ii-carpool-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/20\/world-war-ii-carpool-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"World War II Carpool Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During World War II, the government encouraged carpooling because they needed the gas and rubber for the war (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legion.org\/whatsnew\/posters?row=0\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>). Here is a sample of the propaganda:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/781.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2770  aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/781.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"653\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/1944.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2771\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/1944.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"685\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This one is, as it appears, by Dr. Seuss:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/dr-seuss.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2772\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/dr-seuss.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"633\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next two are from the State of Ohio:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/ohio.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2773  aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/ohio.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"521\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/ohio-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2774\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/ohio-2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"686\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the comments, both Eoin and Toban B. (T.B.) pointed us to this poster (found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/powers_of_persuasion\/use_it_up\/images_html\/ride_with_hitler.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/10\/ride_with_hitler.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3099  aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/10\/ride_with_hitler.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"464\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During World War II, the government encouraged carpooling because they needed the gas and rubber for the war (source). Here is a sample of the propaganda: This one is, as it appears, by Dr. Seuss: The next two are from the State of Ohio: In the comments, both Eoin and Toban B. (T.B.) pointed us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2123,253,221,23704,23705,309],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-environmentnature","tag-history","tag-cars","tag-public-service-announcements","tag-vintage-stuff","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}