{"id":436,"date":"2005-03-10T22:46:58","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T06:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2005-03-11T16:24:02","modified_gmt":"2005-03-12T00:24:02","slug":"i-should-have-saved-my-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"I should have saved my money."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next-door neighbor kid got a car recently. It&#8217;s a 2-door Camry, but there are scrapes on both sides. I keep thinking he&#8217;s going to hit my car, since he parks in the spot in front of me and gets pretty close. Today I found my license plate holder is cracked and the paint on the front bumper is crackled. If he doesn&#8217;t fess up, I&#8217;m just kind of hosed. I called next door and asked his mom if she knew anything about it. She told me she knows her son is a bad parker (sometimes he&#8217;s feet from the curb) but she also knows that it could have been someone else and neither of us can just blame her kid.<\/p>\n<p>Arrrgh.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well. It&#8217;s just a bumper. I guess I don&#8217;t have to pay several hundred dollars to get it fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next-door neighbor kid got a car recently. It&#8217;s a 2-door Camry, but there are scrapes on both sides. I keep thinking he&#8217;s going to hit my car, since he parks in the spot in front of me and gets pretty close. Today I found my license plate holder is cracked and the paint on the front bumper is crackled. If he doesn&#8217;t fess up, I&#8217;m just kind of hosed. I called next door and asked his mom if she knew anything about it. She told me she knows her son is a bad parker (sometimes he&#8217;s feet from the curb) but she also knows that it could have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I should have saved my money.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}