{"id":3093,"date":"2002-08-09T10:47:01","date_gmt":"2002-08-09T15:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2014-12-09T18:03:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T01:03:39","slug":"dramatic_vehicl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/09\/dramatic_vehicl.html","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/smattering.org\/archives\/00000749.php\">Friday Five<\/a>, this week with all-car action!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>1. Do you have a car? If so, what kind of car is it? <\/b> &#8220;My&#8221; car is a &#8217;95 Saturn SC2 coupe, sort of a metallic pink in color.  Zippy and immune to dents and dings, but a bit cramped, too light for icy roads, and a two-seater max.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Margie&#8217;s&#8221; car is an &#8217;00 Toyota Sienna mini-van.  Well-built and comfy and just perfect for a family (or transporting people &#8230; or sheets of plywood).<\/p>\n<p><b>2. Do you drive very often? <\/b> All the time, to and from work, on the weekend for errands, and occasionally for holidays.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy driving, and tend to be the default driver when the family piles into the car.<\/p>\n<p><b>3. What&#8217;s your dream car?<\/b>  I keep dreaming of a convertable, though it&#8217;s probably highly impractical.  The BMW Z3 is on my &#8220;oooh, you can get me one of those&#8221; list.  My longest-term dream car has been something in the Porsche 911 family.<\/p>\n<p><b>4. Have you ever received a ticket? <\/b> Heh.  Yeah, a couple.  Not many &#8212; I average one every two to three years, generally for speed, almost always justified.<\/p>\n<p><b>5. Have you ever been in an accident?<\/b>  A few times.  In recent years, they were ice\/snow-related.  Previously I skidded off an onramp once, and was hit from behind &#8212; and hit others from behind &#8212; in a couple of stop-and-go traffic incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for this week&#8217;s Friday Five, this week with all-car action!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,32,749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-personal-qa","category-weather-and-seasons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135370,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/anyone-actually-give-car-christmas-gift.html","url_meta":{"origin":3093,"position":0},"title":"Does anyone actually give a car as a Christmas gift?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Nov-17 10:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because, as it's Christmas Time, every car commercial seems to be about Cars with Giant Bows being Given as Gifts, and I'm trying to figure out if this is just symbolic thing, a real thing, or something car companies want to make a real thing. 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