{"id":418,"date":"2007-12-20T20:47:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2008-01-03T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:56:39","slug":"mandatory-winter-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Winter Tires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite numerous articles touting the benefits of winter tires, I&#8217;ve never really bothered. That&#8217;s largely been because I&#8217;ve never <b>had<\/b> to drive, so I could wait for the roads to be plowed\/salted before heading out on my all-seasons. No one in my immediate family usually bothered either (except my dad, who for a while had performance summer tires on his car, rather than all seasons, which really necessitated a winter set as well). Getting the Nokian WRs this year though, I&#8217;ve noticed a difference (they are severe-service rated all-seasons), and there are even better winter tires than those out there. However, now winter tires will be mandatory in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/consumer\/story\/2007\/12\/20\/quebec-snowtires.html\">Quebec<\/a>. I doubt this measure will follow through in Ontario though: there are too many people in Toronto who just don&#8217;t have the space to store a second set of tires who would complain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite numerous articles touting the benefits of winter tires, I&#8217;ve never really bothered. That&#8217;s largely been because I&#8217;ve never had to drive, so I could wait for the roads to be plowed\/salted before heading out on my all-seasons. No one in my immediate family usually bothered either (except my dad, who for a while had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}