{"id":950,"date":"2009-06-03T15:11:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T19:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2009-07-15T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T01:43:56","slug":"one-thousand-four-hundred-and-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/one-thousand-four-hundred-and-four\/","title":{"rendered":"One thousand, four hundred and four"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I remember correctly, it’s been that many days since I owned a car. No, I haven’t been tallying the days one by one (long ago ran out of fingers and toes…). And I’m only a little better at doing date math then time math (oh, just change it to base-60 and calculate, they say! ha!). But thankfully, the web makes it easy<\/a>. So as part of our plan of moving to the ‘burbs, Adrienne and I have purchased a car. A 2000 Honda CR-V EX, 65k miles, manual tranny, one-owner (who showed me all the receipts for oil changes, gave me the card of Luigi the service manager at the Honda dealership who knows the car, etc. etc.).<\/p>\n

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Of course, this will pretty much be a weekend-use car; public transportation will remain the prevailing method. But we think it’s got the right combo of size\/utility, reliability, economy (it’s basically a tall Honda Civic) and value. Hope we’re proven correct on all accounts! And we like the boxier yet smaller styling of the 2000 model vs. newer ones (which only get bigger and curvier).<\/p>\n

So, what do people reccommend for wax these days? I’ve got a weekend project…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I remember correctly, it’s been that many days since I owned a car. No, I haven’t been tallying the days one by one (long ago ran out of fingers and toes…). And I’m only a little better at doing date math then time math (oh, just change it to base-60 and calculate, they say! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31,21,19,29],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQPn-fk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}