{"id":969,"date":"2011-08-12T11:31:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T16:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=969"},"modified":"2011-08-12T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T16:34:44","slug":"yippy-ki-yay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"yippy ki yay"},"content":{"rendered":"

We passed another milestone in our continuing evolution.\u00a0 We bought a pickup truck.\u00a0 Anyone who has grown up in Texas or lived here for any amount of time will suspect something may be wrong with you if you don\u2019t have a pickup truck in your family.\u00a0 We are misfits no more.\u00a0 Of course our conformity comes at a cost.\u00a0 Our drop top pony car has been sacrificed for our boat pullin, kayak haulin, high sittin vehicle.<\/p>\n

The Mustang was a GT Convertible Premium, it was a 2007 an had about 20K miles on it.\u00a0 Fast and fun it was both badass and a creampuff.\u00a0 Interests and priorities change and we thought our vehicles should be part of that change.\u00a0 We pretty much made an even swap for our (new to us) 2010 Ford F-150 XLT SuperCrew.\u00a0 It has quite a few more miles on it \u2013 54K but it is in very good shape and should do nicely supporting our recreational habits.\u00a0 I will be adding a receiver hitch this weekend.<\/p>\n

\"newtruck\"We have never owned a truck so I spent a fair amount of time doing research and I am still doing research but I am looking forward to the new experience.\u00a0 Next time I pull into Tractor Supply I can hold my head up high as I stroll from the parking lot.\u00a0 True storey \u2013 I was at one of these stores one time looking for a trailer part, in the parking lot there were 23 vehicles including our Expedition.\u00a0 I actually counted them.\u00a0 Care to guess how many trucks there were?\u00a0 Yup \u2013 22.\u00a0 At least I had a big American SUV, had I showed up in a Honda a rain of spent chewing tobacco may have been my greeting.<\/p>\n

Wish us luck with the new vehicle and do not speak of convertibles this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We passed another milestone in our continuing evolution. We bought a pickup truck. Anyone who has grown up in Texas or lived here for any amount of time will suspect something may be wrong with you if you don\u2019t have a pickup truck in your family. We are misfits no more. […]<\/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\/969"}],"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=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}