{"id":40,"date":"2005-09-13T19:25:17","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T02:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2005-10-23T21:27:17","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T04:27:17","slug":"barbies-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Barbie&#8217;s Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about how dangerous it is to ride a bike when it&#8217;s raining.  Especially a <a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/gallery\/fz1\/FZ1_1\">bike<\/a> that has 140 horsepower.  I&#8217;ve also been thinking about how uncomforatable it is to be soaked.  With those 2 things in mind I started looking for a small car to drive the 28 miles to and from work that got good gas mileage.  I&#8217;ve got a Ford F-150 but it doesn&#8217;t know how to pass a gas station.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I started looking in earnest for a wet weather car and yesterday I found it.  It&#8217;s a 1991 <a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/gallery\/miata\">Mazda Miata<\/a>.  It&#8217;s not fast but it is kinda fun and it will keep me dry.  It seems to be in pretty good condition for a 15 year old car.  We&#8217;ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about how dangerous it is to ride a bike when it&#8217;s raining. Especially a bike that has 140 horsepower. I&#8217;ve also been thinking about how uncomforatable it is to be soaked. With those 2 things in mind I started looking for a small car to drive the 28 miles to and from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}