{"id":103,"date":"2006-01-22T18:10:57","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T01:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2006-01-23T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T17:56:02","slug":"new-car-for-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"New car for Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"

After realizing how completely SCREWED I was going to be on the Mercedes lease I had, decided I needed a new car. Normally I’d have made a good case for leasing a car (if you like to drive new cars every few years) – but when your drive to work one way is over 25 miles, there is just no way to make it work. I was laready 4000 miles over the allowance on my car – with a YEAR left to go on the lease. Would have ended up costing me an additional $7000, so I had to get out.<\/p>\n

Been considering an Acura TL<\/a> ever since I drove my buddy Dan’s in Florida. but once I saw all that it could do – I had to have one. Touchscreen navigation with a bazillion points of interest in the database, bluetooth connection to the cell phone, comfort, power – just a LOT more car than even the next level up Mercedes would have been. When we found a certified pre-owned (also knows as “used”) 2005 model on the lot for $5000 less with absolutely no difference, I had to make a deal. I love it already, and Sydney thinks it is cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After realizing how completely SCREWED I was going to be on the Mercedes lease I had, decided I needed a new car. Normally I’d have made a good case for leasing a car (if you like to drive new cars every few years) – but when your drive to work one way is over 25 […]<\/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-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}