{"id":851,"date":"2013-09-10T16:44:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelorigans.com\/?p=851"},"modified":"2013-09-10T16:44:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:44:23","slug":"mama-got-a-new-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"Mama Got a New Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was 16 years old, like all 16 year olds, I was super excited to get my driver’s license. \u00a0Also, like most 16 year olds, I needed a car. \u00a0Around that same time, my grandpa passed away, leaving my grandma with an extra car. \u00a0Boo for death, yay for a car! \u00a0That was my first official car. \u00a0It was a 1982 babyshit tan volvo sedan. \u00a0It was a manual transmission, no a\/c, and it didn’t always start. \u00a0I drove that thing all through high school and part of collage. \u00a0When I moved to Fresno, I really needed an a\/c, so my parents got me a 1992 Honda Accord. \u00a0My dad and Pat even put a CD player in it for me. \u00a0It didn’t always start, but it got me around and got me through college. \u00a0When I graduated and moved to San Diego, my grandma passed away and once again there was an extra car. \u00a0My mom took that car and she gave me her 2001 Mazda Tribute. \u00a0I was excited because I finally had a car that was newer than 10 years old and worked pretty well. \u00a0That car took me everywhere. \u00a0I took it 4 wheeling in the desert, I took it up to snow in Julian. \u00a0It drove me up to Lockwood for my wedding and to all my doctors appointments when the twins were born. \u00a0After almost 170,000 miles, it was time to retire her. \u00a0The roof was starting to rust pretty bad, the steering wheel made a horrible noise, my breaks made an ear piercing screech that no one was able to fix, and there were times when it was hard to get started. \u00a0The other day I was driving home and I noticed that there was another new noise and was probably a U-joint problem. \u00a0I guess we just got to the point where we were dropping too much money into it and we were both worried about making the trip to Lockwood in it.<\/p>\n

Now, I know the smart thing to do would have been to go look at Carmax or someplace like that to find something that was a couple years old, but this was my chance to FINALLY have a new car. \u00a0A car that I got to pick out and test drive. \u00a0I ended up with a 2014 Ford Explorer. \u00a0It has a third row in it so we can take one car when family is in town and it has 4 wheel drive for the desert and the snow. \u00a0One of my favorite things is that is has soooo much room!! \u00a0It is perfect for lugging around all my newborn equipment to photo shoots. \u00a0I can also use the navi to find the shoots instead of having to use Pat’s car. \u00a0I <3 my car!!<\/p>\n

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When I was 16 years old, like all 16 year olds, I was super excited to get my driver’s license. \u00a0Also, like most 16 year olds, I needed a car. \u00a0Around that same time, my grandpa passed away, leaving my grandma with an extra car. \u00a0Boo for death, yay for a car! \u00a0That was my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelorigans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}