{"id":419,"date":"2007-12-12T01:47:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T06:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/12\/12\/hello-herman\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T01:47:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T06:47:54","slug":"hello-herman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/hello-herman\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Herman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve traded in the GTI. He served me well for those 88,000 miles, but it was time for a change. I was really looking forward to not making car payments anymore, but the fickle car gods had other ideas. After a string of repairs that made me nervous about its future, I decided to go ahead and trade it in while it still had value.<\/p>\n<p>So the quest for a new vehicle began in earnest about a month ago. Since I don&#8217;t commute long distances or in heavy traffic anymore, my options seemed limited only by my wallet. I even tried to get on the list for the new Dodge Challenger SRT8 despite how foolish it might have been. (Unfortunately, they&#8217;re going for as much as DOUBLE sticker price!) I test drove everything from hatchbacks (the Volvo C30 is seriously fun) to haulers. Since I don&#8217;t commute long distances or in heavy traffic anymore, gas mileage isn&#8217;t a big issue for me, and a truck really made a lot of sense. After a ludicrous amount of analysis and internal debate, I eventually settled on the magnificent beast you see below.<\/p>\n<p>So, meet Herman. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidehike\/2105186368\/\" title=\"Herman by sidehike, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2029\/2105186368_49d7ca04cd.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Herman\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidehike\/2104400001\/\" title=\"Enter Herman by sidehike, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2258\/2104400001_45bc761463.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Enter Herman\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve traded in the GTI. He served me well for those 88,000 miles, but it was time for a change. I was really looking forward to not making car payments anymore, but the fickle car gods had other ideas. After a string of repairs that made me nervous about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}