{"id":10472,"date":"2023-11-07T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10472"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","slug":"the-joys-of-car-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10472","title":{"rendered":"THE JOYS OF CAR OWNERSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sarah got a lesson today after school: Intro to The Joys of Car Ownership.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a rare November day with temperatures hitting the upper 70s, and since Sarah has owned her VW Bug convertible for just a few (cold) weeks, she was looking for an excuse to drive somewhere with the top down.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suggested taking the dogs to Mill Race Park on the other side of town.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dogs were not sure what to make of open air driving, but Sarah and I were in 7th heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lesson #1: &#8220;There&#8217;s a reason people love convertibles.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231106_160836-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2544\" height=\"3392\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231106_160844-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3392\" height=\"2544\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231106_161004-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2544\" height=\"3392\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231106_160921-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"4000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We parked, Sarah put the top up, and locked her Bug up tight before we headed toward the pond at the center of the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah got a lesson today after school: Intro to The Joys of Car Ownership.\u00a0 It was a rare November day with temperatures hitting the upper 70s, and since Sarah has owned her VW Bug convertible for just a few (cold) weeks, she was looking for an excuse to drive somewhere with the top down. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10479,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10472\/revisions\/10479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}