{"id":10921,"date":"2020-11-30T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=10921"},"modified":"2020-11-30T12:46:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T17:46:43","slug":"treat-your-cars-right-even-or-especially-the-loaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/10921","title":{"rendered":"Treat Your Cars Right, Even, Or Especially, The Loaners&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;poor thing might never otherwise know what a owner love is. Hoisted from today&#8217;s Facebook Memories&#8230;November 30, 2012, just because&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Back from dropping off Traveler at the dealership while it gets a minor ding in the driver&#8217;s side door fixed. Beware the decorative metal planter rails between the sidewalks and the street parking along 17th street between P and R in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I get a loaner car from my dealer I am reminded of Dan (another Mercedes owner) telling me the car would change my idea of what normal is. You really notice the difference in solidness of build. I am thoroughly spoiled now. On the other hand, not being born to the manor I didn&#8217;t have to sit in it like an upper class twit wondering how to adjust a non-power seat. I&#8217;ll treat you right hon&#8230;my first car was a 1973 Ford Pinto and it took me to California and back.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only do I know how to work a stick, I can also work a manual door window! I haz life skills!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;poor thing might never otherwise know what a owner love is. Hoisted from today&#8217;s Facebook Memories&#8230;November 30, 2012, just because&#8230; Back from dropping off Traveler at the dealership while it gets a minor ding in the driver&#8217;s side door fixed. Beware the decorative metal planter rails between the sidewalks and the street parking along 17th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[181,112],"class_list":["post-10921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-adventures-in-car-ownership","tag-the-geek-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}