{"id":1185,"date":"2007-03-01T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T08:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/01\/automotive-question\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T08:44:07","slug":"automotive-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/01\/automotive-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Automotive Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t buy a car these days without a rear window defroster&#8211; the little built-in electric heaters that melt ice and frost off the rear window. You push a button on the dashboard, and the ice just melts away, no scraping required.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it, then, that to clear the windshield, you have to rely on a combination of warm air blowing on the inside of the glass, and scraping crap off the outside? Why don&#8217;t they build little electric heaters into the windshield, which would make life <strong>much<\/strong> easier for those of us in cold areas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t buy a car these days without a rear window defroster&#8211; the little built-in electric heaters that melt ice and frost off the rear window. You push a button on the dashboard, and the ice just melts away, no scraping required. Why is it, then, that to clear the windshield, you have to rely&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/01\/automotive-question\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Automotive Question<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}