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oh, I also bought a new car on Saturday.<\/p>\n

I pick it up on Thursday, and spent Monday morning and about an hour today doing the insurance dance of poverty (mention you’re under 25 and they pull out the remove-left-arm-and-leg device).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

oh, I also bought a new car on Saturday. I pick it up on Thursday, and spent Monday morning and about an hour today doing the insurance dance of poverty (mention you’re under 25 and they pull out the remove-left-arm-and-leg … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-4T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":430,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/12\/heater-woes\/","url_meta":{"origin":303,"position":0},"title":"Heater woes….","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-07-12","format":false,"excerpt":"Aparrently they're only meant to last 10 years. 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