{"id":21797,"date":"2015-07-13T13:37:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T20:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21797"},"modified":"2015-07-13T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T20:37:48","slug":"old-blue-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/13\/old-blue-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Blue is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2015\/06\/29\/something-old-nothing-new-something-borrowed-something-blue\/borrowedcar_062915\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21583\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BorrowedCar_062915-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"BorrowedCar_062915\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21583\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The seller and I agreed on a 30% price reduction from what we&#8217;d originally established (which is also more than 30% under Kelley Blue Book) + three months of he&#8217;ll-fix-anything-that-goes-wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I was getting along just fine on foot and with occasional boosts from neighbors and friends, but I was aware of the many possible ways in which I might not do so fine without making serious impositions on good people.<\/p>\n<p>And besides &#8230; I kinda missed Ole Blue. It&#8217;s a nice little ride.<\/p>\n<p>Now I only hope I don&#8217;t regret this &#8230; that it lasts until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startengine.com\/startup\/elio-motors\" target=\"_blank\">Elio<\/a> comes on the market &#8230; and that the Elio turns out at least vaguely to resemble the claims being made for it.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, in the meantime, the Xterra will still get some attention. But no driving until I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t die in the middle of the highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seller and I agreed on a 30% price reduction from what we&#8217;d originally established (which is also more than 30% under Kelley Blue Book) + three months of he&#8217;ll-fix-anything-that-goes-wrong. I was getting along just fine on foot and with occasional boosts from neighbors and friends, but I was aware of the many possible ways in which I might not do so fine without making serious impositions on good people. And besides &#8230; I kinda missed Ole Blue. It&#8217;s a nice little ride. Now I only hope I don&#8217;t regret this &#8230; that it lasts until the Elio comes on&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/13\/old-blue-is-back\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old Blue is back<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}