{"id":1910,"date":"2011-10-21T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T19:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2013-02-01T18:21:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T00:21:03","slug":"purchased-due-to-a-mid-life-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=1910","title":{"rendered":"Purchased due to a midlife crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving to school yesterday and pulled up behind a flashy looking Audi at a stoplight. (I don&#8217;t know what style it was, but suffice it to say the car was flashy.) Why do I think it&#8217;s a midlife crisis purchase, you ask? After all, most guys I know talk about getting a Ferrari, a Porsche, a Lamborghini, etc. One of those generic &#8220;I don&#8217;t really know what&#8217;s special about it, but it&#8217;s expensive and looks cool&#8221; cars.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I think the Audi was a midlife crisis purchase was because of the license plate. As I pulled up behind it at the stoplight, I saw its personalized plate: <big><b>ACT 2<\/b><\/big>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving to school yesterday and pulled up behind a flashy looking Audi at a stoplight. (I don&#8217;t know what style it was, but suffice it to say the car was flashy.) Why do I think it&#8217;s a midlife crisis purchase, you ask? After all, most guys I know talk about getting a Ferrari, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=1910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Purchased due to a midlife crisis?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_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":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[657],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-midlife-crisis"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1muBs-uO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}