{"id":633,"date":"2017-09-16T20:56:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T00:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=633"},"modified":"2017-09-16T20:56:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T00:56:52","slug":"190-my-pretty-pretty-prius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"190. My Pretty, Pretty Prius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2008, I bought a 2002 Prius with 126,000 miles on it.  I hoped it would last long enough for me to pay what I borrowed to buy it &#8211; and it has lasted long past that.<\/p>\n<p>Now it has more than 224,000 miles on it.  Earlier this year, I brought it in after I knocked off the driver-side mirror, and later when a warning light went off.  Both times, I ended up paying more than $1000 for other problems they found.<\/p>\n<p>So today it was with much trepidation that I brought it in for a state inspection and servicing.  The only thing they found was that a tail light was out!  It only cost me $134.<\/p>\n<p>It still gets around 40 miles per gallon, and is such a wonderful car.  Now I hope it will keep running until I can pay down my debt enough to be able to afford a new one.  That may take awhile!  But meanwhile, I&#8217;m so thankful for my little car!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2008, I bought a 2002 Prius with 126,000 miles on it. I hoped it would last long enough for me to pay what I borrowed to buy it &#8211; and it has lasted long past that. Now it has more than 224,000 miles on it. Earlier this year, I brought it in after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}