{"id":146,"date":"2007-02-17T20:40:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T04:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/17\/top-10-reasons-i-love-my-new-car\/"},"modified":"2007-02-17T20:40:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T04:40:30","slug":"top-10-reasons-i-love-my-new-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 reasons I love my new car&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10.<\/strong> It handles like it is on rails! Okay, maybe not that great &#8211; but it is definitely so much better than the truck.<br \/>\n<strong>9.<\/strong> It has lots of space even though it doesn&#8217;t take up much space. (I can park compact spaces, now!)<br \/>\n<strong>8.<\/strong> The doors are short &#8211; when I open them, they don&#8217;t hit everything within 3 feet of our car.<br \/>\n<strong>7.<\/strong>\u00a0 It has a Moonroof. It is almost as good as J&#8217;s convertible. Better in some regards &#8211; Emma doesn&#8217;t complain about it being &#8220;too windy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>6.<\/strong> I have driven it all week (put on over 150 miles) and the gas tank is just below 1\/2 empty!<br \/>\n<strong>5.<\/strong> It gets about the same &#8220;miles til empty&#8221; that the truck did, but it costs 1\/2 of what it did to fill the truck. (Seriously! Cut my cost at the pump in HALF!)<strong><br \/>\n4.<\/strong> My iPod hooks into the stereo AND it has a 6 CD changer. Laurie Berkner and They Might Be Giants can now peacefully co-exist with music Mommy wants to listen to.<br \/>\n<strong>3. <\/strong>Oh, did I mention that it gets great gas mileage?! I feel &#8220;greener&#8221; just owning a non-SUV vehicle.<br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> It is so super safe. I love the ads that are out for Volvo right now &#8211; they are rated so highly in safety, this maybe should be #1, but really&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>#1<\/strong> reason I love my new car is that it is easy to look cool in&#8230;even toting groceries and 2 kids!\u00a0 Well, maybe it doesn&#8217;t look as cool as I think&#8230;.but it feels pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>(Emma looks cute next to it, too!)<a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/car.jpg\" title=\"car.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/car.jpg\" alt=\"car.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10. It handles like it is on rails! Okay, maybe not that great &#8211; but it is definitely so much better than the truck. 9. It has lots of space even though it doesn&#8217;t take up much space. (I can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-2m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}