{"id":230,"date":"2005-08-15T20:12:11","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T02:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squids.ca\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/15\/we-bought-a-new-van\/"},"modified":"2005-08-15T20:12:11","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T02:12:11","slug":"we-bought-a-new-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"We bought a new van."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I should be excited, but frankly, I&#8217;m exhausted.  We <em>did<\/em> just buy a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyota.ca\/cgi-bin\/WebObjects\/WWW.woa\/20\/wo\/Home.Vehicles.Go.Sienna-OmTVOYMA3lFuecY3LJQrvM\/3.11?fmg%2fsienna%2fintro%2ehtml\">2005 Toyota Sienna<\/a>.  We went for the base model because, even though I am a geek, I view all the bells and whistles as &#8220;things that will break&#8221;, and who REALLY needs automatic side doors and such?  Maybe if we had a baby, but there&#8217;s really no need for it now.<br \/>\nSo, it was a toss up between the <a href=\"http:\/\/honda.ca\/Honda\/BuildYourHonda\/Step1?ModelName=Odyssey&amp;yr=2005&amp;CancelToArea=HomePage&amp;L=E\">Honda Odyssey<\/a> and the Sienna.  Honda is touted as &#8220;the Lexus of Minivans&#8221;, and we really liked it&#8230;better than the Toyota, but it was $5000 more (almost $40000 Canadian!!!).  We decided we didn&#8217;t like it THAT much more.  We&#8217;ll be happy with the Sienna.  It can pull our trailer and is <em>functionally<\/em> equivalent to the Odyssey at a bit of a cheaper price.  But&#8230;.whew!  What a stressful ordeal.   We traded in our old van&#8230;obviously didn&#8217;t get enough for it, you never do with a trade-in, but I wasn&#8217;t prepared to sell it myself&#8230;and spent most of the afternoon in the dealers &#8220;haggling&#8221; over the &#8220;no haggle&#8221; price.   Anyway, I&#8217;ll get some pictures up as soon as we actually get it&#8230;.Thursday or Friday with any luck.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\">I hate cars&#8230;.and vans&#8230;..and trucks&#8230;.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I should be excited, but frankly, I&#8217;m exhausted. We did just buy a new 2005 Toyota Sienna. We went for the base model because, even though I am a geek, I view all the bells and whistles as &#8220;things that will break&#8221;, and who REALLY needs automatic side doors and such? Maybe if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}