{"id":338,"date":"2008-09-20T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2008-10-24T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T19:09:08","slug":"car-scratch-20sep08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/car-scratch-20sep08\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Scratch (20\/Sep\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a small scrape against a stealthed rock which I assumed the car hire company wouldn&#8217;t be too impressed with:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/Journal\/damagedCar.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The scrape on our car\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/Journal\/damagedCar_small.jpg?resize=250%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" title=\"Damaged Car\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>The scrape on our car<\/i><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>They actually were very understanding and just told me &#8220;<i>don&#8217;t worry about it<\/i>&#8221; &#8211; I therefore rate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamo.com\">Alamo<\/a> very highly and will hire from them again if I get the chance. The funny thing about the rock I reversed into was that I tripped over it while going to see what I had hit. It therefore put a hole in the car and my leg, Doh!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/Journal\/damagedCarAndLeg.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A hole in my leg (and the car)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/Journal\/damagedCarAndLeg_small.jpg?resize=250%2C188&#038;ssl=1\" title=\"Damaged Car and Leg\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>A hole in my leg (and the car)<\/i><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our &#8220;holy&#8221; car was a nice drive &#8211; It was a hybrid, which I&#8217;d read about but thought was quite futuristic and didn&#8217;t expect to get. It did 50MPG which probably saved us quite a bit of dosh seeing we did an average of 100 miles a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a small scrape against a stealthed rock which I assumed the car hire company wouldn&#8217;t be too impressed with: They actually were very understanding and just told me &#8220;don&#8217;t worry about it&#8221; &#8211; I therefore rate Alamo very highly and will hire from them again if I get the chance. The funny thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}