{"id":1003,"date":"2017-06-06T17:47:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T17:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2017-06-06T17:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T17:47:34","slug":"useless-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/06\/useless-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Useless Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From a newsgroup post dated July 20, 2008:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My family has been naming cars since my Dad got a second-hand gray 1936 Ford during World War II and named it Boadicea.  The following are the cars my parents and I have owned:<\/p>\n<p>Parents:<br \/>\nBoadicea:  gray 1936 Ford sedan<br \/>\nThe Olds:  forest green 1948 Oldsmobile<br \/>\nThe Wagon:  light green 1954 Chevy wagon with fake wood sides<br \/>\nBianca:  white 1964 Chevy Greenbrier passenger van, with red stripe<br \/>\nMelanie:  tan 1969 VW bus<br \/>\nDaphne:  green and white 1972 VW bus<br \/>\nCinnamon:  red 1980 Chevy Citation<\/p>\n<p>Julie &#038; me:<br \/>\nSolid Jackson:  gray-and-white 1957 DeSoto Firesweep hardtop<br \/>\nHarry Carry the Dirty Dog:  white 1971 Toyota Corolla with several large patches of brown body putty<br \/>\nGretchen:  Miami blue 1978 VW Rabbit<br \/>\nLambert:  gold 1976 Dodge D-100 pick-up with huge white camper top<br \/>\nMagellan the Voyager (Maggie):  maroon 1984 Plymouth Voyager minivan<br \/>\nPolychrome (Polly):  silver 1986 Chevy Spectrum<br \/>\nWinnie:  gray 1991 Plymouth Voyager minivan<br \/>\nSally:  arrest-me red 1993 Buick Skylark Gran Sport<br \/>\nAriel:  silver 1998 Isuzu Oasis minivan (built by Honda)<br \/>\nBrandi:  &#8220;apple-red&#8221; 2008 Hyundai Elantra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a newsgroup post dated July 20, 2008: My family has been naming cars since my Dad got a second-hand gray 1936 Ford during World War II and named it Boadicea. The following are the cars my parents and I have owned: Parents: Boadicea: gray 1936 Ford sedan The Olds: forest green 1948 Oldsmobile The&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/06\/useless-details\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}