{"id":1596,"date":"2007-06-23T05:45:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T10:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2007-06-23T05:45:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T10:45:48","slug":"something-for-nothing-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Something for nothing? Not really."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never is, I suppose, that whole TANSTAAFL thing. On the other hand, last night, on the way back from work, I started to get that shifting feeling in the tail, the back of the exploder yawing around more than I like, and I knew the right rear was low on air. So, a couple bucks in my pocket, I swing into the Lincoln Oasis, and pull up to the air pump.<\/p>\n<p>And discover it&#8217;s free. Free? Free air? I know some stations hae an inside button that allows the attendant to turn on the stuff, but here was an air station, at a gas station that charges 30 cents more per gallon than the norm, without any coin slot, just a pushbutton. <\/p>\n<p>So I filled the tires and drove on. You take what you can get when you can get it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never is, I suppose, that whole TANSTAAFL thing. On the other hand, last night, on the way back from work, I started to get that shifting feeling in the tail, the back of the exploder yawing around more than I like, and I knew the right rear was low on air. So, a couple bucks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}