{"id":30,"date":"2007-09-29T04:34:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T13:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seanmisen.com\/?p=30&amp;language=en"},"modified":"2007-09-29T04:34:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T13:34:44","slug":"caruma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/car\/caruma\/","title":{"rendered":"Caruma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, that&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/kanjisite.com\/html\/start\/rhsinfo\/r_shakuruma.html\">pun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I made my final and ultimate decision on a car.  At least until July 31st of next year.  It&#8217;s a silver 2005 Subaru Legacy 2.0R with 49,000km on it and a black interior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/caruma-2.jpg\" title=\"Subaru 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/caruma-2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Subaru 2\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/caruma-4.jpg\" title=\"Subaru 4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/caruma-4.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Subaru 4\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/caruma-3.jpg\" title=\"Subaru 3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/caruma-3.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Subaru 3\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/caruma-1.jpg\" title=\"Subaru 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/caruma-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Subaru 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am paying a fairly good chunk of change a month for it, but looking at it one way, only about 13% of my monthly salary.  And that monthly payment includes <em>shaken<\/em> (shah-ken, a sort of car inspection tax), other car taxes, and full insurance that covers another driver in the car with me.  I also don&#8217;t have any obligation past next July.  And, for an extra 250 bucks, I am getting a roof rack with ski holder.  Apparently, the car gets about 9 km\/l.  At 3.785 liters to the gallon, and 1.6 kilometers to the mile, I&#8217;ll let you math wizards figure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=9+kilometers+per+liter+in+miles+per+gallon&amp;btnG=Google+Search\">that one out<\/a>.   And at about 144 yen for a liter of gas, at an exchange rate of 115 yen to the dollar, I&#8217;ll be spending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;q=144+yen+per+liter+in+dollars+per+gallon&amp;btnG=Search\">some money on gas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll pick the car up on the tenth of next month, as it has to undergo the <em>shaken<\/em> process and get plates and stuff.  I&#8217;m glad all that crap is taken care of for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, that&#8217;s a pun. So I made my final and ultimate decision on a car. At least until July 31st of next year. It&#8217;s a silver 2005 Subaru Legacy 2.0R with 49,000km on it and a black interior. I am paying a fairly good chunk of change a month for it, but looking at it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}