{"id":12524,"date":"2017-06-30T08:26:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12524"},"modified":"2017-06-29T20:09:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T02:09:44","slug":"farewell-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/farewell-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Old Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Prius.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12525\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Prius.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Prius.jpg 1008w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Prius-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Prius-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/a>On November 22, 2008, I stumbled in to Planet Toyota with a falling apart 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix, with 187,864 miles, and left with a brand spanking new Prius.\u00a0 8 1\/2 years, and 247,500 miles, later, it is time to say goodbye.\u00a0 Later on today, I will be selling the Prius and coming home with a new Tesla Model S.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from 8 years of going back and forth to work and local baseball games, this car took me to West Lafayette, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Toronto, and Cooperstown.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve shed tears and had wonderful times in the car.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve been through a lot together, but it is time to move on.\u00a0 I&#8217;d hoped to pass the 250,000 mile mark before shopping for a new car, but the lure of the Tesla, and the 1.49% interest rate, were too much to ignore.\u00a0 I hope someone else continues the car&#8217;s journey and that they have as much luck with it as I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 22, 2008, I stumbled in to Planet Toyota with a falling apart 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix, with 187,864 miles, and left with a brand spanking new Prius.\u00a0 8 1\/2 years, and 247,500 miles, later, it is time to say goodbye.\u00a0 Later on today, I will be selling the Prius and coming home with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7458,7460,7456,7457,7459,1263,3370],"class_list":["post-12524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-grand-prix","tag-model-s","tag-planet-toyota","tag-pontiac","tag-prius","tag-tesla","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12569,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions\/12569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}