{"id":191,"date":"2006-01-21T19:56:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T23:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/21\/the-man-car\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T16:03:43","slug":"the-man-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/21\/the-man-car\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy and I have had this little &#8220;system&#8221; going for the past 19 years in regards to our vehicles.  We don&#8217;t want more than 1 car payment so we take turns.  It works out to each of us getting a new vehicle every 8 or 10 years depending upon the terms of financing.  Since it will be my turn next, I&#8217;ve been doing a bit of browsing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mshepherd.com\/images\/jeep.jpg\" alt=\"Jeep Wrangler\" ALIGN=\"right\" \/>Fifteen years ago, and BC (Before Children), Wendy and I went to Hawaii for a two week vacation.  I recall a spur of the moment decision to rent a Jeep, put the top down, and cruise up the coast.  Man did we have a blast, some very fond memories.  Since then, it&#8217;s always been in the back of my mind that one day, I&#8217;d like to own a Jeep.  Just look at it, does it not look like fun?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mshepherd.com\/images\/hummer.jpg\" alt=\"Hummer 3\" ALIGN=\"right\" \/>A Hummer is perhaps the epitome of a &#8220;Man-Car&#8221;.  In the past, I&#8217;ve always looked at them and thought&#8230; &#8220;very cool but too wide, guzzles gas &#038; can&#8217;t touch one for less than 50k&#8221;.  Apparently, the auto maker has been reading my mind with the release of the new Hummer-3 (Baby Hummer).  It has the classic look, it&#8217;s about the same size as your typical S.U.V. and comparable gas mileage.  The icing on the cake is prices start at under 30k.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever vehicle I choose, I do know it will be the color black.  I&#8217;m not sure why, but I&#8217;ve developed a fetish for black cars.  Also, Wendy&#8217;s Rendezvous has gotten me hooked on heated seats.  Nothing like toasty buns on a frigid commute to work!<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; tell me what you think.  Am I crazy?  Got any better ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy and I have had this little &#8220;system&#8221; going for the past 19 years in regards to our vehicles. We don&#8217;t want more than 1 car payment so we take turns. It works out to each of us getting a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/21\/the-man-car\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}