{"id":11,"date":"2009-12-31T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/?p=11"},"modified":"2010-03-22T03:42:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:42:57","slug":"the-blue-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today we added about 6000lbs to our family.  No, we did not all spend the day at Golden Coral.  Linda finally got a new SUV.  She has been driving a 1998 Ford Expedition for quite a while, it has been a trusty steed taking us all over the US in reliable comfort (except for that one<\/em> incident on the Colorado mountain side but everyone is entitled to one bad day in 12 years).  It was time to get her a vehicle from the 21st century.\"bigblue\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t have to look far.  Although we considered the GM full size SUVs, we couldn\u2019t resist the latest Texas sized offering from Ford.  Linda settled on a well equipped dark blue pearl Eddie Bauer edition.  We went downtown to see our old friend and ultimate Aggie – Tommy Vaughn.  Tommy was an all American Fighten Texas Aggie and part of the Texas A&M; national championship of 1939.  OK, we never met Tommy and he is dead now but we did go to the dealership with his name on it.  Our sales guy was a man named David and he was easy to work with \u2013 no muss no fuss.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until we got home that we realized just how much bigger this new big brother was than his older sibling.  It barely fit in the garage, we had less than an inch to spare as the roof rack slid under the garage door.  If the gas tank would have been empty instead of full we may not have made it.  See Yao Ming standing next to our blue beast as a point of reference. <\/p>\n

\"inside\"<\/a>Yes, it scares small children from California and they cry when they look up from their Prius and see it, and I had to tell the banker that I was going to medical school so he would give me a loan big enough to appease Ford credit, but we can pull a small house behind it, call you on the integrated bluetooth speakerphone and if we ever have another hurricane, we will have a place to stay.<\/p>\n

We came to Texas from Florida in a Honda.  Not long after we got here Linda was sitting at a red light when she realized the trailer hitch on the truck in front of her was pretty much at eye level.  She looked to her left and saw a running board the size of a surfboard.  They called them vehicles<\/em>.  At that moment she knew she wanted to sit up high.  She started with a minivan or two then got into the hard stuff.  And that’s how we got to where we are today.  Hey, the next<\/em> vehicle we get will be one of those Mini Coopers, no really! I\u2019m totally serious, we can quit any time we want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Today we added about 6000lbs to our family.  No, we did not all spend the day at Golden Coral.  Linda finally got a new SUV.  She has been driving a 1998 Ford Expedition for quite a while, it has been a trusty steed taking us all over the US in reliable comfort (except for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}