{"id":205,"date":"2008-01-20T17:05:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T00:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/20\/im-still-alive-but-the-cars-around-me-might-not-be\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T20:55:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T03:55:03","slug":"im-still-alive-but-the-cars-around-me-might-not-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/20\/im-still-alive-but-the-cars-around-me-might-not-be\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m still alive, but the cars around me might not be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This joint blog seems to have turned into Greg&#8217;s blog lately. So since Greg has decided to blog at least 3 times a week, I&#8217;ve decided to try to blog at least once a week. Let&#8217;s see how long I can keep it up.<\/p>\n<p>So this has been a bad car week.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend Lisa&#8217;s car started to die. It would not start, and then when it did start, it would stop as she was driving it. Her dad thinks it&#8217;s the alternator not staying in place, and so the car thinks she&#8217;s taken the key out when she&#8217;s driving. Not good!<\/p>\n<p>She called Brian to pick her up, and he had a flat tire. So, she ended up driving it home, but is going to get it checked.<\/p>\n<p>Then today, I went to our aviary to check on the birds. It had snowed yesterday (a dusting, really) and had gotten really cold out, so I wanted to make sure the birds were okay for food and water. As most of you know, I&#8217;ve named my car Rusty. He&#8217;s EXTREMELY rusty to the point of having my back right shock rusted-stuck. Well, today I think the back left shock joined its right friend. Every time I hit a small pothole or bump in the road with the left side of my car, the entire back end felt like it was&#8230; well&#8230; not right. I&#8217;m hoping something was just frozen because of the cold, but I think that&#8217;s probably wishful thinking. I guess it was too much to ask for Rusty to last the final 5 months of my stay here.<\/p>\n<p>So now two of the three cars around seem to be out of commission. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Monday, January 21<\/p>\n<p>My car is fine. Maybe I was crazy&#8230; maybe there was actually something like a piece of ice wedged in my left back shock&#8230; who knows. But now my car is perfectly fine. Well&#8230; as fine as a crappy car can be! YAY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This joint blog seems to have turned into Greg&#8217;s blog lately. So since Greg has decided to blog at least 3 times a week, I&#8217;ve decided to try to blog at least once a week. Let&#8217;s see how long I can keep it up. So this has been a bad car week. Last weekend Lisa&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}