{"id":216,"date":"2008-07-02T18:17:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T01:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2008-07-04T22:57:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T05:57:43","slug":"its-a-rental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/its-a-rental\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s a rental&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"218\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/its-a-rental\/mazda31\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mazda31.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"430,290\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mazda31\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mazda31.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mazda31.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-218 alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"mazda31\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mazda31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" \/>Our car was in bad shape, so it had to spend a couple of days in the shop.\u00a0 In the mean-time, we decided to rent a car for Wednesday, since I needed to get to Concord and back.\u00a0 With AAA, renting was a lot cheaper than we thought it would be, and Hertz gives a discount if your car is being repaired.\u00a0 So, I got to drive a fancy-shmancy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mazdausa.com\/MusaWeb\/displayPage.action?pageParameter=modelsGallery&amp;vehicleCode=M3S\" target=\"_blank\">Mazda3<\/a> for the whole day!\u00a0 It was light blue, like in the picture.\u00a0 I felt so cool &#8211; like I was on vacation or something, driving a sleek automatic with that &#8220;new car&#8221; smell.\u00a0 I thought it would make our car seem pathetic in comparison.\u00a0 When I picked up our own little Mazda 626 at the shop, though, with a new water pump and tensioners rumbling along inside, I felt happy to be driving my own car again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our car was in bad shape, so it had to spend a couple of days in the shop.\u00a0 In the mean-time, we decided to rent a car for Wednesday, since I needed to get to Concord and back.\u00a0 With AAA, renting was a lot cheaper than we thought it would be, and Hertz gives a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14],"tags":[24,28,131,99],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-3u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}