{"id":7558,"date":"2019-05-27T21:54:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T21:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/?p=7558"},"modified":"2019-05-27T21:54:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T21:54:54","slug":"minivan-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2019\/05\/27\/minivan-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Minivan Upgrade!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the hectic weeks with new cats, school ending, and a birthday party to host, we have been shopping for a new car.\u00a0 My little Nissan finally needed some significant work (new struts), giving me just cause to replace it.\u00a0 We’ve been wanting a minivan for years.\u00a0 Ben and I did deep research into SUVs, crossovers, and all the available minivans on the market.\u00a0 Then we had to locate a car on the market that best matched the features we wanted.\u00a0 After hours of reading, looking, driving, and haggling, we took home the perfect new car!<\/p>\n

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A Chrysler Pacifica Touring Plus.\u00a0 It has a heated steering wheel for me and a DVD player for the kids.\u00a0 It has power doors and a back-up camera – these are pretty standard nowadays but a total luxury for me!\u00a0 We wanted cloth seats and the easy to stow flat bucket seats in the back.\u00a0 I love being in a higher position on the road and having SO MUCH ROOM.\u00a0 Sam is finally able to buckle himself into his booster seat because in my old car it was too cramped and squashy for him to reach.<\/p>\n

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I quickly added some minivan essentials: trash bag suspended from the front arm rests, and a tennis ball to help park in the garage.\u00a0 Some things can’t be improved upon with technology \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Ben took a picture of my old car side by side as we were leaving.\u00a0 They low-balled a trade-in offer, so we’re going to figure out selling it after life calms down a little more.<\/p>\n

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I looked back in my blog to the last time<\/a> I got a new car.\u00a0 Might as well update the timeline:<\/p>\n

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Despite the hectic weeks with new cats, school ending, and a birthday party to host, we have been shopping for a new car.\u00a0 My little Nissan finally needed some significant work (new struts), giving me just cause to replace it.\u00a0 We’ve been wanting a minivan for years.\u00a0 Ben and I did deep research into SUVs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7559,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions\/7559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}