{"id":3260,"date":"2018-01-24T10:39:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T15:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2018-01-24T10:39:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T15:39:19","slug":"the-death-of-the-car-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3260","title":{"rendered":"the death of the &#8220;car analogy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the rise of the &#8220;sharing economy&#8221;, and companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyft.com\/invite\/ANTIPAUCITY\">Lyft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/hiswai.com\/company\/almost-250000-lyft-passengers-stopped-using-a-personal-car-in-2017\">proudly declaring<\/a> 250,000 people ditched cars in favor of ride-sharing, what will be the fate of the venerable &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Car_analogy\">car analogy<\/a>&#8220;?<\/p>\n<p>Heck, what was the common analogy before cars?<\/p>\n<p>How will language and colloquial usage change with the [eventual] death of the car as the most common means of transportation (presuming, of course, it actually <em>will<\/em> die)?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the death of the car will prove to be, in the historical view, something like the loss of the <a href=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2015\/04\/08\/the-loss-of-the-shared-social-experience\/#.WmioGJM-fgp\">shared social experience<\/a> that TV used to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the rise of the &#8220;sharing economy&#8221;, and companies like Lyft proudly declaring 250,000 people ditched cars in favor of ride-sharing, what will be the fate of the venerable &#8220;car analogy&#8220;? Heck, what was the common analogy before cars? How will language and colloquial usage change with the [eventual] death of the car as the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3260\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the death of the &#8220;car analogy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[90,161,563,691],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmmm","tag-analogy","tag-car","tag-phrases","tag-society"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}