{"id":753,"date":"2010-12-01T06:51:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T14:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2010-12-01T06:51:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T14:51:52","slug":"happy-trails-xb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2010\/12\/01\/happy-trails-xb\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, xB"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" style=\"margin-left: 10px;\" title=\"Ahniwa and the xB\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_3UdTc9snlTU\/TPZgBi-123I\/AAAAAAAAAGo\/07-UFXLEiTY\/s288\/IMG_1906.jpg\" alt=\"Ahniwa and the xB\" width=\"216\" height=\"288\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">xB and me the day we left for Montreal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I bought my 2006 Scion xB literally days before I moved to Montreal. Before that I owned a 1993 VW Fox, which had been a (mostly) fine car, but I didn&#8217;t trust it to get me to Montreal in one piece, much less back and forth multiple times as I did over the next two years. Getting the Scion was a joint effort, and the only reason I was able to afford a new car is because both parents helped out. My dad was the one who recommended I check out a Scion, and though I hadn&#8217;t been considering one until then, I&#8217;m glad he suggested it.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past four years, the xB and I drove to Montreal, and back to Olympia, and back to Montreal, and back to Olympia. We took a number of trips to Mary Hill in the summer, and we cruised Olympia in the snow and ice a couple years ago, during Snowmageddon.<\/p>\n<p>The Scion was a great car, and we had good times, and yesterday, I sold it.<\/p>\n<p>So long, xB, and happy trails. Stay out of trouble, away from short-haired dogs, and if you ever hit 100 MPH in Montana again, I hope you&#8217;ll think of me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"xB en route\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_3UdTc9snlTU\/TPZj7eSIRMI\/AAAAAAAAAG8\/2CPBAIP-Sig\/s400\/IMG_2151.jpg\" alt=\"xB en route\" width=\"490\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought my 2006 Scion xB literally days before I moved to Montreal. Before that I owned a 1993 VW Fox, which had been a (mostly) fine car, but I didn&#8217;t trust it to get me to Montreal in one piece, much less back and forth multiple times as I did over the next two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311],"tags":[318,319,320,321,322,323,324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}