{"id":1521,"date":"2005-07-13T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/13\/a-brand-new-car\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T14:33:00","slug":"a-brand-new-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/13\/a-brand-new-car\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brand New Car!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/DSC00443-727728.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/DSC00443-724706.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Yup, that&#8217;s a new 2005 Toyota Prius.  We bought it yesterday from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyota101.com\/\">Toyota 101<\/a> in Redwood City and had a good, relatively hassle-free experience.  We splurged for the GPS navigation system, because we love gadgets and hate getting lost.*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/DSC00444-721725.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/DSC00444-717706.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>In the second photo, that&#8217;s a Snout magnet (design inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/universal\/serenity\/\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Serenity<\/span><\/a>); there&#8217;s one on either flank.  I made a bunch of these via cafepress.com for use during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/game\/\">The Game<\/a> (decorating our van, tagging other teams&#8217;), and they look quite smart.  I plan to order more, and adhere them wherever possible.<\/p>\n<p>* <small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellme.com\/\">Tellme<\/a> is good for many things, but giving driving directions is not one of them.  It&#8217;s slow, usually can&#8217;t understand what I&#8217;m saying, and wait, I have to know what <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">city<\/span> I&#8217;m in?  I&#8217;m <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">lost<\/span>!  That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m calling for directions!<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, that&#8217;s a new 2005 Toyota Prius. We bought it yesterday from Toyota 101 in Redwood City and had a good, relatively hassle-free experience. We splurged for the GPS navigation system, because we love gadgets and hate getting lost.* In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}