{"id":543,"date":"2006-06-14T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/14\/goner\/"},"modified":"2006-06-14T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T01:30:14","slug":"goner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/14\/goner\/","title":{"rendered":"Goner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; We &#8220;got rid&#8221; of our Infiniti on Monday. I guess the guy is a mechanic who&#8217;s going to be fixing it up and resale the car. <\/p>\n<p>Now comes the impossible task of finding a reliable car that will fit a budget on a string, literally&#8230; not to mention the hassles of having to deal with low-life car salesmen&#8230; I wonder why car salesmen have to be suck pricks and jackasses, like most of the police officers I have dealt with &#8212; that&#8217;s not to say all of them are jerks&#8230; but clearly pricks outnumber the non-pricks for most people I know to dislike them&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230; Grace found some interesting possibilities&#8230; Maybe we&#8217;ll deal with Internet car sales people this time&#8230; geek-to-geek talks&#8230; Plus we are not going to spend hours haggling with the sales people anymore&#8230; We&#8217;ll go right before the dealership closes (we&#8217;ll see how late they can play the good-cop\/bad-cop game). Also, we have Bryan on our side this time&#8230;. Anytime we smell something fishy, we&#8217;ll use him as an excuse to get out of the dealership, pronto&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; We &#8220;got rid&#8221; of our Infiniti on Monday. I guess the guy is a mechanic who&#8217;s going to be fixing it up and resale the car. Now comes the impossible task of finding a reliable car that will fit a budget on a string, literally&#8230; not to mention the hassles of having to deal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/14\/goner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s54IqZ-goner","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}