{"id":112,"date":"2007-07-03T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2007\/07\/the-new-car.html"},"modified":"2007-07-03T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T22:40:00","slug":"the-new-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2007\/07\/the-new-car.html","title":{"rendered":"The New Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did end up buying the Honda Civic. I’m still in shock, but it’s a lovely, lovely, lovely car, and I love it. Everything works so much better than it did in my old car, and I got more than 40mpg on the highway this past weekend!<\/p>\n

Oh, and if you ever want to buy a car, here’s how you do it:<\/p>\n

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  1. Decide on a car while visiting out-of-state relatives (this is the hard part…. well, except for the paying-for-it part)<\/li>\n
  2. Call your home-state dealer and say you want x car, should you buy it now or wait till you get home? The decision will depend on the deal you get. (Get their offer in writing via email.)<\/li>\n
  3. Call the out-of-state dealer and say you want x car, should you buy it now or wait till you get home? And by the way, home-dealer<\/span>-guy gave you x price.<\/li>\n
  4. When the out-of-state dealer ducks home-state dealer’s price, you buy the car without ever having had to negotiate with anyone face-to-face.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I did end up buying the Honda Civic. I’m still in shock, but it’s a lovely, lovely, lovely car, and I love it. Everything works so much better than it did in my old car, and I got more than 40mpg on the highway this past weekend! Oh, and if you ever want to buy … Continue reading The New Car<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me-and-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}