{"id":10,"date":"2008-04-23T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2009-08-12T15:18:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T23:18:18","slug":"cheerio-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Cheerio is Born!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">It has been a long time coming, but Sue Shefman&#8217;s red RAV4 has received a makeover by Haideen Anderson and myself, and we just gave a great ride to San Francisco Chronicle features writer Meredith May. And she was kind enough to write about the experience in an article titled, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/04\/20\/BADU107ECA.DTL&amp;hw=tom+kennedy&amp;sn=001&amp;sc=1000\" title=\"Hippo Car Article by Meredith May\">His cars often take turn towards whimsy<\/a>. <\/strong>Thanks Meredith for such a fine article. Now we load Cheerio and her roof riding companions Shalom and Aloha onto a transport truck bound for Houston.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" id=\"file-link-15\" title=\"Hippo Car Rump\" class=\"file-link image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hipporump.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"Hippo Car Rump\" alt=\"Hippo Car Rump\" \/><\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" id=\"file-link-16\" title=\"Hippo Front View\" class=\"file-link image\">  \t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hipponose.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"Hippo Front View\" alt=\"Hippo Front View\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" id=\"file-link-13\" title=\"hippo\" class=\"file-link image\"> \t\t\t <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hippoblog1.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"hippo\" alt=\"hippo\" \/><\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" id=\"file-link-12\" title=\"Roofrider Shalom\" class=\"file-link image\">  \t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/shalom.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"Roofrider Shalom\" alt=\"Roofrider Shalom\" \/><\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" id=\"file-link-11\" title=\"Cheerio\" class=\"file-link image\">  \t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hipposideview.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"Cheerio\" alt=\"Cheerio\" \/><\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" id=\"file-link-14\" title=\"hipposnoutcloseup.jpg\" class=\"file-link image\">  \t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/hipposnoutcloseup.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a long time coming, but Sue Shefman&#8217;s red RAV4 has received a makeover by Haideen Anderson and myself, and we just gave a great ride to San Francisco Chronicle features writer Meredith May. And she was kind enough to write about the experience in an article titled, His cars often take turn&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/?p=10\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cheerio is Born!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,14,13,15],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-cars","tag-art-cars","tag-cars","tag-hippopotamus","tag-whimsy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}