{"id":1546,"date":"2007-02-14T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/could-this-be-the-end\/"},"modified":"2007-02-14T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T17:45:00","slug":"could-this-be-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/could-this-be-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Could this be the end&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more ...of my '94 Honda Accord Station Wagon (AKA best car in the universe)?!?--><\/p>\n<p>I was doing my normal Tuesday morning commute to Chicago yesterday in the middle of a not so fun winter storm, when I slid off the highway and hit the rail.  I was OK, but my car, definitely wasn&#8217;t.  Lots of scratches, dents, a broken blinker&#8230; and some major steering problems.  Still, it was good enough for me to drive it to the next exit.<\/p>\n<p>I had my precious little wagon towed to Chicago and awaited the verdict from my insurance company.  In the meantime, I busied myself looking at other cars on Vehix.com and other sites (just in case).  <\/p>\n<p>I received the call today, and I couldn&#8217;t believe my ears:  Total Loss!  Well, maybe not total&#8230;  they didn&#8217;t inspect the mechanical damage because the cosmetic damage was enough to cause the insurance company to think twice about having me as a client.  At any rate, they&#8217;ll cut me a check for $2700 if I don&#8217;t want to keep the car.  If I want to keep the car, the check will be slightly smaller.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I&#8217;m getting an estimate on the mechanical damage to the car.  If the mechanical damage is minor, I&#8217;ll think about fixing it up and driving it in it&#8217;s new cosmetically challenged condition.  If not, it will be the end of my beloved wagon.  I&#8217;ve had this car for 9 years.  I&#8217;m a little sad at the prospect of not having it anymore.  I&#8217;m also a little scared of having a car payment again.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned&#8230;  No more driving in snow.  Period.  If work doesn&#8217;t like it, oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,122,39,121],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accident","tag-car","tag-sad","tag-station-wagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}