{"id":251,"date":"2004-09-29T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/09\/29\/c39ba7b3-1cfd-49c5-984a-5dc0d7fb4b48\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:29:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:29:35","slug":"c39ba7b3-1cfd-49c5-984a-5dc0d7fb4b48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/c39ba7b3-1cfd-49c5-984a-5dc0d7fb4b48\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>Bloody Quick Contest!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the scenario: One ten-year-old Dodge Dakota (is it 2004 already?) with a four banger and a five speed manual transmission. One cabin in a town with no local trash pickup (get it? pickup!).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and here&#8217;s the question: should I spend the time and energy to fix up the shabby Dakota to make it a decent runner, or should I keep it limping along enough to entertain while taking trips to the dump and the occassional Home Depot runs off The Hill to Hemet and beyond?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your sense of the long-term worth of this thing? If this aids your decision, the truck will be free to me.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to leave your comments in, well, the Comments section of this post.<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<p>P.S. There will be a big prize for the commenter who provides my favorite answer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloody Quick Contest! Here&#8217;s the scenario: One ten-year-old Dodge Dakota (is it 2004 already?) with a four banger and a five speed manual transmission. One cabin in a town with no local trash pickup (get it? pickup!). &#8230;and here&#8217;s the question: should I spend the time and energy to fix up the shabby Dakota to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/c39ba7b3-1cfd-49c5-984a-5dc0d7fb4b48\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}