{"id":1823,"date":"2009-12-01T20:48:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T04:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2009-12-01T20:48:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T04:48:27","slug":"unexpected-vehicle-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/unexpected-vehicle-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Vehicle at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yup. It happened last night.<\/p>\n

We live on a lonely-at-night country road — up a somewhat-long, somewhat-tree-shrouded driveway.<\/p>\n

And a car showed up. (Yeah, there were people in it.)<\/p>\n

Unannounced.<\/p>\n

So I gave our big black dog my special whistle to switch him from Welcome Waggin’ mode to Vicious Attack K9 mode. Then I took down the double-banger shotgun from over the back door and opened the door.<\/p>\n

Very Important Disclaimer:<\/i> That previous paragraph is totally detached from reality and from history.<\/p>\n

The visitors were unexpected to us parents, but not to their siblings (who also live here).<\/p>\n

Russell and Shari brought a new starter for our van, compliments of Luke and LaVay. Russell did the mechanicking with Andrew’s help.<\/p>\n

\"Andrew<\/a>
\nAndrew and Russell studying our van’s starter<\/i><\/div>\n
\"Russell<\/a><\/div>\n

Very, very nice to have a dependable starter on our van again.<\/p>\n

Thank you very much!<\/b><\/p>\n

(And to think that two days earlier I had planned to buy a new starter!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yup. It happened last night. We live on a lonely-at-night country road — up a somewhat-long, somewhat-tree-shrouded driveway. And a car showed up. (Yeah, there were people in it.) Unannounced. So I gave our big black dog my special whistle to switch him from Welcome Waggin’ mode to Vicious Attack K9 mode. Then I took … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[704],"tags":[404,706],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thankful","tag-family","tag-gratefulness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-tp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}