{"id":2613,"date":"2007-07-25T13:59:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T13:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2007-07-25T13:59:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T13:59:18","slug":"the_end_of_an_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/the_end_of_an_e\/","title":{"rendered":"the end of an era&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>not quite three months after i wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/archive\/2007\/04\/my_little_hessm.html\">celebrating our 15th anniversary<\/a>, i may have to say goodbye to her forever.<br \/>\naround 7:30 this morning, the black range rover i was following up the hill came to a sudden and unexpected stop. i wasn&#8217;t going very fast and i wasn&#8217;t too close, but i was close enough to not have enough room to bring her to a stop before this happened:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hessiebell\/897215003\/\" title=\"not a good morning\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1204\/897215003_242f051c08.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"not a good morning\" class=\"photos\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i slammed on the brakes, i tried to swerve to avoid impact (into oncoming traffic, so it&#8217;s probably good i didn&#8217;t succeed).  instead of a near-miss, i heard an awful noise and saw a whole lot of blue hood where there shouldn&#8217;t have been any.<br \/>\nthe car&#8217;s been towed away, i&#8217;ve been to the doctor because my leg and arms are sore, i&#8217;ve picked up a rental car and i&#8217;m just about to leave to go meet with the insurance company.  i&#8217;m petrified of what they&#8217;re going to say.  absolutely petrified.  all the horrible ICBC stories i&#8217;ve heard during my life are coming to mind as i anticipate this meeting.<br \/>\ni&#8217;m still a little shocky and prone to unexpected tears.  thank goodness my boss let me go home and christopher is being his wonderful, supportive self while i alternately break down and then swear a blue streak.<br \/>\nwell, at least it&#8217;s sunny out.  *shrug*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>not quite three months after i wrote about celebrating our 15th anniversary, i may have to say goodbye to her forever. around 7:30 this morning, the black range rover i was following up the hill came to a sudden and unexpected stop. i wasn&#8217;t going very fast and i wasn&#8217;t too close, but i was <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/the_end_of_an_e\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}