{"id":23,"date":"2008-02-12T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-08-25T23:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T23:53:23","slug":"asparagus-pee-chris-buys-a-new-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/asparagus-pee-chris-buys-a-new-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Asparagus Pee Chris Buys a NEW Car!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/newcar-300x225.jpg\" halign=\"center\" alt=\"Chris Benson in his new Asparagus-Pee Mobile\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, after driving an 18-year-old &#8217;89 Honda Accord for over 16 years, I broke down last month and bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmunds.com\/toyota\/matrix\/review.html\" alt=\"A N-E-WWW Car!\">2008 Toyota Matrix XR<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the <i>perfect<\/i> car I&#8217;ve been dreaming of, but it was the closest fit to some pretty tough criteria:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>List price under $20,000<\/li>\n<li>Largest cargo capacity for a small car<\/li>\n<li>Over 30 mpg highway<\/li>\n<li>Moonroof<\/li>\n<li>Silver with grey interior<\/li>\n<li>Not embarassingly ugly<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here it is with the seats <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/weblog\/seatsdown.jpg\">down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you think Christmas is coming earlier every year, please be aware that the <em><b>2009<\/b><\/em> Toyotas are already here. They came out the end of <em>January<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after driving an 18-year-old &#8217;89 Honda Accord for over 16 years, I broke down last month and bought a 2008 Toyota Matrix XR. It&#8217;s not the perfect car I&#8217;ve been dreaming of, but it was the closest fit to some pretty tough criteria: List price under $20,000 Largest cargo capacity for a small car &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/asparagus-pee-chris-buys-a-new-car\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asparagus Pee Chris Buys a NEW Car!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}