{"id":590,"date":"2006-12-01T08:36:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T08:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/reader_ride_of.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:35","slug":"reader_ride_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/reader_ride_of.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Reader Ride of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/\">Autoblog<\/a>, one of the most popular car blogs around, chose my Thunderbird as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2006\/11\/30\/rr-of-the-day-1960-ford-thunderbird\/\">Reader Ride of the Day<\/a> for Thursday.  The deal is you upload some photos of your car to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\">Flickr<\/a> and add three of them to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/autoblog\/\">RR of the Day photo pool<\/a>.  They chose a car a day from their readers to highlight.<br \/>\nMake sure you check back to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/rr-of-the-day\/\">RR of the Day Category<\/a> over the weekend so you can vote for my car as RR of the Week.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out, Autoblog, one of the most popular car blogs around, chose my Thunderbird as the Reader Ride of the Day for Thursday. 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