{"id":168,"date":"2004-08-14T22:40:57","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T22:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=168"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:05:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:05:39","slug":"cars_eat_gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/cars_eat_gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars eat gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Girlfriend&#8217;s car is eating through an exorbitant amount of gas these days. Even taking into account this summer&#8217;s price hike at the pumps, the little red &#8217;86 Mazda 323 seems to have sucked up at least three $40 refills in the last 1000 kms. I remarked the car probably has an eating disorder, or as the Girlfriend figures it, a tapeworm. Even better, she hypothesized, it&#8217;s pregnant and will soon give birth to a brand new car! For those who drive old beaters, this type of fantasizing is wonderfully addictive and quickly spirals out of orbit.<br \/>\nNote: I&#8217;ll expand more on my August activities later this week, including highlights from a day at the batting cages and water slides, camping among the history of Finnish Socialist Utopians, and this weekend&#8217;s incredible salmon fishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Girlfriend&#8217;s car is eating through an exorbitant amount of gas these days. Even taking into account this summer&#8217;s price hike at the pumps, the little red &#8217;86 Mazda 323 seems to have sucked up at least three $40 refills in the last 1000 kms. I remarked the car probably has an eating disorder, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}