{"id":2071,"date":"2016-11-03T12:40:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2016-11-03T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:40:37","slug":"three-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/03\/three-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Three"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Collections and Cars. Write about any collections you have, and the cars you\u2019ve owned.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three years of earning virtually no money has significantly cut my collections. &nbsp;I simply don\u2019t have the resources to do that sort of thing anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was a kid, I collected baseball and football cards. &nbsp;There\u2019s a Brett Favre rookie card somewhere at my mom\u2019s house. Yes, it\u2019s strange seeing him in a Failcons helmet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bought that card at a show on one of the posts in Germany. &nbsp;Hanau, maybe? &nbsp;He\u2019d just taken over the job with the Peckers, and I\u2019m a double-legacy at Southern Landmass, so I thought it was kinda cool. &nbsp;But I was also thirteen, and it was 1993. &nbsp;The ideas of what was cool were a bit off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cars. &nbsp;I don\u2019t currently own one; &nbsp;I\u2019m too blind to drive. &nbsp;I sold my last one, a 2003 Mustang GT at the end of 2013. &nbsp;The proceeds largely went to support me and my wife after I\u2019d gotten laid off for the second time in a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, the proceeds from the sale of my 2001 Jeep Wrangler were largely used after I got laid off in 2013. &nbsp;The Wrangler didn\u2019t net me very much; &nbsp;it had something like 260,000 miles on it when I sold it. &nbsp;Original clutch. &nbsp;How I managed that is completely beyond me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sold my 1992 Wrangler back to my dad for a dollar. &nbsp;He sold it to a nearby used car dealership. &nbsp;I think it had something like 180,000 miles on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never had a car with an automatic transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living in Tidewater without a car is very difficult. &nbsp;Thankfully, I am afforded telecommute opportunities in my current position. Getting to my work site via public transit is possible, but it takes a long time, and requires two transfers. &nbsp;It aslo takes about an hour and a half if I hit the schedules just right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t really know what else I can say, other than the idea of living an an exburb holds no appeal for me these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother sometimes speaks fo \u201cliving off the land.\u201d &nbsp;How about no? &nbsp;Not something that ever really held much appeal for me, and even less as I\u2019ve aged. &nbsp;Not being able to drive has compounded it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I rahter like indoor plumbing and hot water. &nbsp;Maybe that makes me a bad person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collections and Cars. Write about any collections you have, and the cars you\u2019ve owned. Three years of earning virtually no money has significantly cut my collections. &nbsp;I simply don\u2019t have the resources to do that sort of thing anymore. When I was a kid, I collected baseball and football cards. &nbsp;There\u2019s a Brett Favre rookie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}