{"id":929,"date":"2006-06-28T23:33:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T06:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=929"},"modified":"2006-06-29T21:33:55","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T04:33:55","slug":"i-still-like-my-boring-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"I still like my boring car."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave the trainer tried to kill me today, or at least have me examine my lunch again. We ran up the stairs several times and it&#8217;s been a few weeks since I last tried it. A woman from the gym went up with us and she did a lot better. She probably weighs half of what I do, so she had a lot less to carry up the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>My neighbor, who I haven&#8217;t talked to in years (he&#8217;s on the next street over, but we&#8217;ve been neighbors for 20 years or so) just got a Prius 6 months ago. He&#8217;s only getting about 35MPG! Well, his regular commute is only about five blocks. He&#8217;s an OB\/GYN and I guess when he needs to get to another hospital, he can&#8217;t take the time to walk home and get his car. I think I&#8217;m going to do a little better than that. Other than the squeak I hear in my car (since it&#8217;s quiet enough to hear squeaks) I still like it! And I see so many Priuses on the road, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d be able to tell which one was mine in a parking lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave the trainer tried to kill me today, or at least have me examine my lunch again. We ran up the stairs several times and it&#8217;s been a few weeks since I last tried it. A woman from the gym went up with us and she did a lot better. She probably weighs half of what I do, so she had a lot less to carry up the stairs. My neighbor, who I haven&#8217;t talked to in years (he&#8217;s on the next street over, but we&#8217;ve been neighbors for 20 years or so) just got a Prius 6 months ago. He&#8217;s only getting about 35MPG! Well, his regular commute is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=929\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I still like my boring car.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","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\/929","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=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}