{"id":3885,"date":"2005-09-17T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-17T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2021-06-08T19:30:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T23:30:18","slug":"a-grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/09\/17\/a-grand\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/mebug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; This might not be a big deal for a lot of car owners out there, but it&#8217;s new to me. Tonight, for the first time, I got to watch my odometer roll over from 099999 to 100000. Usually such an impending milestone is my cue it&#8217;s time to get a new car; but, things as they are, I&#8217;m needing to hang on to my Saturn for longer than anticipated, which means I got to witness the event myself. I brought my camera with me to work so I could capture the ceremony; and since I also didn&#8217;t want to cause any accidents I actually drove in circles around the parking lot, after my shift, for the necessary eight miles. Thus, I could\u2026<br><center><br><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/099999.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" style=\"border: 3px solid #000000;\"\/><br>\u2026watch this\u2026<br><br><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/100000.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" style=\"border: 3px solid #000000;\"\/><br>\u2026turn into this.<\/center><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I know it sounds terribly profligate to waste gasoline like that in these times, but at least I got my photos out of it.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; This might not be a big deal for a lot of car owners out there, but it&#8217;s new to me. Tonight, for the first time, I got to watch my odometer roll over from 099999 to 100000. Usually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/09\/17\/a-grand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}