{"id":829,"date":"2017-05-27T22:07:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T04:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/?p=829"},"modified":"2017-05-27T22:11:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T04:11:31","slug":"its-been-a-good-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/2017\/05\/27\/its-been-a-good-run\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a good run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after 10 years and one month I am saying farewell to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbb.com\/kia\/sportage\/2001\/\">Kia<\/a>. \u00a0I was driving to work Wednesday morning and the timing belt broke (if you are wondering it happened somewhere in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/45.7948597,-108.534818\/45.7949352,-108.5427031\/@45.7940545,-108.5408446,16.25z\">this area<\/a>). \u00a0Naturally I had just changed the oil Tuesday evening and filled it with gas the previous Friday. \u00a0After talking to the <a href=\"http:\/\/brownsautobillings.com\">mechanic<\/a> it will be $500 just to get it together enough to find out if the engine is still good. \u00a0Assuming the engine is good the total cost of a repair would come out to $900. \u00a0I&#8217;m not willing to put that much into the car.<\/p>\n<p>On the up side, it is summer now so I can bike to work. \u00a0We have money set aside in the budget for a new vehicle so that is good. \u00a0The other nice thing is whatever we get I&#8217;m betting the windows will roll up and down. \u00a0I&#8217;m looking forward to that. \u00a0I&#8217;m hoping to buy something in July. \u00a0That will give us some time to save a bit more and get a feel for the car market here.<\/p>\n<p>That is my big news. \u00a0I&#8217;m looking forward to the three day weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after 10 years and one month I am saying farewell to my Kia. \u00a0I was driving to work Wednesday morning and the timing belt broke (if you are wondering it happened somewhere in this area). \u00a0Naturally I had just changed the oil Tuesday evening and filled it with gas the previous Friday. \u00a0After talking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/2017\/05\/27\/its-been-a-good-run\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s been a good run&#8221;<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}