{"id":242,"date":"2005-10-16T00:43:59","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T09:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2005\/10\/16\/what-a-difference-a-tire-makes\/"},"modified":"2005-10-16T00:43:59","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T09:43:59","slug":"what-a-difference-a-tire-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2005\/10\/16\/what-a-difference-a-tire-makes\/","title":{"rendered":"What a difference a  tire makes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/52902464\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/24\/52902464_407bd845c3_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>So, budgetted into this years AKDividends was 4 new tires for the jeep. We hadn&#8217;t ever gotten new tires for the thing, and bought it used, oh&#8230;. 6? years ago. Heh. How bad were they? Well, afterwards when i was paying, they told me they chose the best of the old tires to mount as my spare? But &#8220;We highly suggest you NOT need to use it&#8230;&#8221; Told you! It was in dire need! So, with that in mind, i made sure to set aside the money for it. I was offered studded tires for a savings of about 40 bucks, but well, I&#8217;m one of *those* people who gets lazy and forgets to get her studs removed until she&#8217;s stopped by the cops&#8230;more then once. heh. Expensive habit, that is. So! a few more bucks, and all weather&#8217;s were places on the jeep.<br \/>\nNow &#8211; the difference in driving I&#8217;ll notice when winter sets in, but the difference in the HEIGHT of the jeep I noticed RIGHT away. Yes. I almost fell flat on my face getting out of the jeep because the ground! it was not where it was supposed to be! in fact! it was a good 2 inches FARTHER AWAY!<br \/>\nHarumph.<br \/>\nFortunately I wasn&#8217;t seen doing such a lovely stumbling stunt, but it has been the cause of much laughter as I tell the story. Only me, man. only me.<\/p>\n<p>In other news &#8211; the &#8220;heart girl&#8221; from the previous entry did not show up to the dance, so the boy had no chance to make his move. He was disappointed, and I was for him, but part of me cheered too. Though admittedly, part of me was also annoyed for him. [the little tart! toying with my boys emotions!] Heh. Gotta love all that.<br \/>\nThe pup had her program at the school yesterady, and it was quite cute, and she was a ptarmigan and looked fabulous in her handmade feather cap. They did  a &#8220;time to sleep for winter&#8221; play and sang songs and had a good ole time showing off for us parents and grandparents.<br \/>\nA little more retail therapy today &#8211; more of the &#8220;i&#8217;m getting OUT OF THIS HOUSE&#8221; kind then buying out the store kind. As evidenced by one of the purchases. A real bra for The Girl. Man. The boy has little tarts all writting on him, and the girl has a real bra, and the pup had her first sleepover for a friends birthday party and&#8230;and.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;M NOT READY FOR THIS!<\/p>\n<p>*sob*<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, budgetted into this years AKDividends was 4 new tires for the jeep. We hadn&#8217;t ever gotten new tires for the thing, and bought it used, oh&#8230;. 6? years ago. Heh. How bad were they? Well, afterwards when i was paying, they told me they chose the best of the old tires to mount as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myriad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}