{"id":1968,"date":"2007-12-26T19:28:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T00:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2012-03-18T07:03:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T12:03:13","slug":"the-light-bulbs-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"The light bulbs goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had one of those moments, you know? I&#8217;ve been monitoring the van for the last couple weeks, driving it carefully, watching the mileage. <\/p>\n<p>Each time I checked, I was getting about 32 to the gallon. <\/p>\n<p>THis is unheard of. Now, the Ford 3.0 Vulcan (damned good engine) is economical, it&#8217;s not THAT exconomical, so I&#8217;m freaking just a bit. How can this thing be getting 30 mpg?  but I think, Shit, it&#8217;s broke, if it&#8217;s getting that kind of mileage- but I&#8217;m DAMNED if I&#8217;m gonna fix it and make the mileage worse. So I&#8217;ve kind of just been keeping it under my hat. <\/p>\n<p>Until I said something to Partner and his brother on Christmas day. We&#8217;re talking and I look at Partner&#8217;s brother and say&#8230; &#8220;The odometer measures kilometers. The van gets 30-33 kilometers per gallon.&#8221; he looked at me and started laughing, and is laughing still. Here I was freaking out about the mileage, and it&#8217;s actually almost perfect; it&#8217;s getting approx 19-22 mpg. <\/p>\n<p>Good lord. <\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess I was overdue for a senior moment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had one of those moments, you know? I&#8217;ve been monitoring the van for the last couple weeks, driving it carefully, watching the mileage. Each time I checked, I was getting about 32 to the gallon. THis is unheard of. Now, the Ford 3.0 Vulcan (damned good engine) is economical, it&#8217;s not THAT exconomical, so I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968"}],"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=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}