{"id":577,"date":"2006-09-14T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/oh-the-horror\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T00:53:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:53:54","slug":"oh-the-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/oh-the-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Inga, my beloved Turbo Beetle (aka &#8220;my Fast,&#8221; hahaha) needs to go to the car doctor. So DH and I plan to drop her off this morning and hitch a ride to a workshop together.<\/p>\n<p>Nay, nay, Fluffy.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out Inga&#8217;s issues aren&#8217;t primarily cosmetic. That rear window adhesive can&#8217;t just be fixed. We&#8217;re talking new top. $4500 of new top. My favorite word today is <span>warranty<\/span>. So because I have to have a new top, they put me in a rental. One of these:<\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><span><img src=\"http:\/\/pictures.dealer.com\/grossingergmc\/thumb_bf45830f4046381e01df9c231917703d.jpg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <span><br \/>Yep, a tan Chevrolet Cobalt four-door sedan with manual everything. You couldn&#8217;t say &#8220;fleet car&#8221; any louder unless you spray painted the word RENTAL down the side.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, it&#8217;s ridiculously clean. It will get me from place to place. There&#8217;s room for my kids and all their stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s a tan Chevy Cobalt, and that is so. not. me. Please, please VW people, hurry with <span>mein<\/span> <span>fraulein<\/span> already!!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inga, my beloved Turbo Beetle (aka &#8220;my Fast,&#8221; hahaha) needs to go to the car doctor. So DH and I plan to drop her off this morning and hitch a ride to a workshop together. Nay, nay, Fluffy. Turns out Inga&#8217;s issues aren&#8217;t primarily cosmetic. That rear window adhesive can&#8217;t just be fixed. We&#8217;re talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[37],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31G3g-9j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}