{"id":684,"date":"2007-10-09T08:57:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T14:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2007\/10\/09\/its-a-good-thing\/"},"modified":"2007-10-09T08:57:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T14:57:51","slug":"its-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a good thing to find out that the car has a dead battery BEFORE you drive it across three states, right?<\/p>\n<p>I took the car to fill it up at Costco and run a few errands.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I stopped at the Library, stopped at Lowes, stopped to fill it up at Costco, stopped at Costco.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 But when I came out with my groceries, the car wouldn&#8217;t start.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Not even try to turn over.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 What the &#8230;.?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Not knowing what to do, I called Ryan at work, who used that as a nice excuse to leave for the day.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 He says he&#8217;s learned that when his wife is in distress, he should leave work IMMEDIATELY.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll tell the story of the time he Didn&#8217;t some other time.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, he came, we jump started the car, which he then took to a service place and found out that the battery was defective and needed to be replaced.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Which is weird, because it worked great every other time I started it.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Huh.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m glad we found that out in the safety of the Costco parking lot, rather that in some fast food place halfway to California.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s all good, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a good thing to find out that the car has a dead battery BEFORE you drive it across three states, right? I took the car to fill it up at Costco and run a few errands.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I stopped at the Library, stopped at Lowes, stopped to fill it up at Costco, stopped at Costco.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}