{"id":3226,"date":"2011-09-23T22:03:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T02:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2011-09-23T22:03:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T02:03:54","slug":"kicking-cybertires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/kicking-cybertires\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking Cybertires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2339\">my car<\/a>. I really hate it.\u00a0I mean, <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=3216\">the poltergeist<\/a> was kind of the last straw. But even before that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It gets terrible gas mileage.<\/li>\n<li>I bought it because I thought keeping the dogs in the way back would help keep it clean, but it doesn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve spent a TON of money on repairs already. Plus, I have to get a new catalytic converter before my next inspection, and when I went to get the oil changed yesterday, &#8220;rear brakes blah, CV joint blah, struts blah blah&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m done. I still owe $4,200 on it because I borrowed against it to do repairs and upgrades on my old house, but I don&#8217;t care. I want a different car.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t afford a new one, naturally, but I want to get a one- to three-year old, manual transmission, smaller\/less heavy, Japanese automobile. I probably can&#8217;t afford that either, but let&#8217;s say I could.\u00a0What should or shouldn&#8217;t I get?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate my car. I really hate it.\u00a0I mean, the poltergeist was kind of the last straw. But even before that: It gets terrible gas mileage. I bought it because I thought keeping the dogs in the way back would help keep it clean, but it doesn&#8217;t. I&#8217;ve spent a TON of money on repairs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/kicking-cybertires\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kicking Cybertires<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-world-problems","category-the-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}