{"id":5970,"date":"2013-08-17T06:13:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T11:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2013-08-17T06:13:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T11:13:23","slug":"my-desire-to-drive-a-diesel-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5970","title":{"rendered":"my desire to drive a diesel increases."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d love to have one in a little truck but I&#8217;m also trying to downgrade the amount of BS I carry withme on a daily basis. So a car would be OK, and I&#8217;m SO over changing spark plugs. Trouble is I&#8217;m pretty well limited to the offerings of VW, and I am <em>utterly invisible to VW sales staff. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I went to three dealers last night, and in each one there were clearly salesmen, many of them could be seen walking around talking to tye-dyed patchouli scented dirtbags, but despite my size I was apparently impossible to see. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, there was the time in the one dealership that a manager came out and said &#8220;Is there something I can help you with?&#8221; in the general tone of &#8220;The tradesman&#8217;s entrance is out back&#8221; with a soup\u00c3\u00a7on of &#8220;Why do you smell like deodorant?&#8221;. When I asked about Jetta and Passat diesels he said &#8220;We don&#8217;t have any used ones in stock and we usually carry newer cars anyway&#8221; like I could somehow not afford a new one, then hurried off. Wasn&#8217;t like I was dressed like a bum, or anything. Maybe only well dressed wealthy parents buy them for their trustafarian kids, I dunno. Anyway, I may get one, if I can get a salesman to talk to me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d love to have one in a little truck but I&#8217;m also trying to downgrade the amount of BS I carry withme on a daily basis. So a car would be OK, and I&#8217;m SO over changing spark plugs. Trouble is I&#8217;m pretty well limited to the offerings of VW, and I am utterly invisible [&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-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970"}],"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=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}