{"id":260,"date":"2015-05-25T12:05:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T17:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=260"},"modified":"2015-05-25T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T17:05:12","slug":"muscle-car-for-the-unmuscular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Muscle car for the unmuscular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t own a car. I haven&#8217;t owned a car since before I met Jess. In England I would drive a <a href=\"http:\/\/citycarclub.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">car club car<\/a> about once per week:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_261\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-01-17-13.06.21-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-261\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-01-17-13.06.21-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Jess by a car club car whilst holding a lettuce.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-01-17-13.06.21-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-01-17-13.06.21-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jess by a car club car whilst holding a lettuce.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But this is a car journey and we are on a road trip. Currently, we are residing in Onalaska until the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/ssnumber\/\" target=\"_blank\">boring things<\/a> are sorted out but we want to get ourselves a car that is comfortable for our long trip ahead.\u00a0So we borrowed from Jess&#8217;s sister, a Dodge Charger. I think it was an SXT which might not count as a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muscle_car\" target=\"_blank\">muscle car<\/a>&#8221; but the next one up with a &#8220;hemi&#8221; engine definitely is one.<\/p>\n<p>I must say I liked it a lot:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_57808\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"700\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tu8phEdIaV8?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whether we can afford one is another matter but a car that stops us getting lost (or is at least comfortable when we do) is what we&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_264\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-05-23-15.39.18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-05-23-15.39.18-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Money can buy happiness.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-05-23-15.39.18-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-05-23-15.39.18-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015-05-23-15.39.18.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Money can buy happiness.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t own a car. I haven&#8217;t owned a car since before I met Jess. In England I would drive a car club car about once per week: But this is a car journey and we are on a road&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-onalaska","category-video","category-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}