{"id":6695,"date":"2017-02-23T19:03:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2017-02-01T19:03:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T19:03:46","slug":"linked-this-disturbing-theory-explains-pixars-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/linked-this-disturbing-theory-explains-pixars-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"LInked: &#8220;This Disturbing Theory Explains Pixar&#8217;s Cars&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3294,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/jalopnik.com\\\/this-disturbing-theory-explains-pixars-cars-1791834045&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250819183935\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.jalopnik.com\\\/this-disturbing-theory-explains-pixars-cars-1791834045\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 03:42:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-14 06:50:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-31 11:15:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-22 05:37:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-25 13:26:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-07 11:38:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-16 18:13:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-24 11:53:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 02:52:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 00:40:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 00:07:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 13:19:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 22:34:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 13:05:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 13:05:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/this-disturbing-theory-explains-pixars-cars-1791834045\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Jalopnik<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Well, more specifically, there actually are human beings inside the cars, and are the source of the car\u2019s personality, intelligence, everything. The mechanical car is just the external body of these human-derived creatures. I call this the Homunculus Theory.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Color me disturbed but in agreement that this is the most plausible theory. Keep in mind, it\u2019s a kids\u2019 movie and therefore the origins don\u2019t have to be figured out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Jalopnik: Well, more specifically, there actually are human beings inside the cars, and are the source of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-02-23T19:04:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"a375cee0-e7a2-4103-aa1c-0fae6d1506df","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-02-23T19:04:03Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ao3XO4OeiQQOqHA-ubRUG3w","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1JZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2171,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/webstock-11-john-gruber-the-gap-theory-of-ui-design\/","url_meta":{"origin":6695,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;Webstock &#8217;11: John Gruber &#8211; The Gap Theory of UI Design&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Fantastic Lunch time viewing (assuming you packed a lunch as it clocks in at 47 minutes): \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6438,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/12\/21\/linked-journalistic-and-economic-values-are-unfortunately-not-correlated-for-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":6695,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Journalistic and economic values are, unfortunately, not correlated. 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