{"id":252,"date":"2004-06-30T14:08:42","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T14:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2006-08-27T19:42:28","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T19:42:28","slug":"i-think-i-can-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/30\/i-think-i-can-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"I think I can finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I can finally say it out loud; we finally own a minivan.<\/p>\n<p>The Sentra left on Monday with relatively little fuss.  (I know that actually there was tons of fuss prior to Monday, you don&#8217;t have to remind me, I&#8217;m in my happy place now)  I picked up the new Sienna yesterday.<br \/>\nWow, now that&#8217;s a nice minivan.  I&#8217;m old enough and mature enough now to say that without a hint of sarcasm or irony.  I used to say that I would never own a minivan, some of you will remember.  Well, that&#8217;s all done now.  It is going to take some getting used to the size of that sucker though.  It&#8217;s downright roomy on the inside, which means it&#8217;s quite roomy on the outside.  It&#8217;s not hard to drive though.<\/p>\n<p>So, watch for the silver Vallentyne juggernaut on a highway near you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I can finally say it out loud; we finally own a minivan. The Sentra left on Monday with relatively little fuss. (I know that actually there was tons of fuss prior to Monday, you don&#8217;t have to remind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/30\/i-think-i-can-finally\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-44","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}