{"id":29,"date":"2006-10-07T21:39:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T05:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2006-10-07T21:43:26","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T05:43:26","slug":"the-gold-honda-leaves-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"The Gold Honda Leaves Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It had to happen sometime.<\/p>\n<p>363k miles and a new timing belt, rubber and radio didn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>At a corner a few blocks from volleyball in Redmond, the engine wheezed its last.<\/p>\n<p>It was a box to get from here to there.<\/p>\n<p>Quick calculation: $4000 to buy. Let&#8217;s say a max of $8k in repairs and maintenance. Another 6 grand for insurance. And 10 thou for gas. 10 years. 15 cents a mile &#8211; $233 a month for the whole shooting match excepting parking and garage.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad for a car that I only liked in its last couple months.<\/p>\n<p>And three kids learned to drive in it. So farewell old Honda.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/pictures\/pictures_by_date.htm#car_under_rock_01\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/pictures\/car_under_rock_01.jpg\" alt=\"Gold Honda up the Middle Fork\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had to happen sometime. 363k miles and a new timing belt, rubber and radio didn&#8217;t help. At a corner a few blocks from volleyball in Redmond, the engine wheezed its last. It was a box to get from here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=29\">Continue reading <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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggy-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}