{"id":15124,"date":"2012-07-03T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=15124"},"modified":"2016-09-18T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T13:29:35","slug":"running-around-and-not-getting-much-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/running-around-and-not-getting-much-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Around and Not Getting Much Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went out this morning to look for a tailgate handle for my Ranger. The scrap yard could have had a used one for me in a couple of days for $35 plus tax. The Ford dealership in Richelieu could have had a new one in the same amount of time for $75 plus tax. I bought a new handle on eBay from a surplus supplier for $19.75 including shipping and taxes. It&#8217;ll be a few more days, but why spend the extra money?<\/p>\n<p>The dealership also did not have touch up paint but directed me to a place that could get me some. I decided to wait for that.<\/p>\n<p>The post title says &#8216;much done&#8217; implying that I did have some success with my errands today. I had casually mentioned the other day that I have been wanting to get a good pepper mill for ages but they are way out of my price range. Well, my step-mother learned that the kitchen supply store Ares is having an amazing deal on Peugeot mills (THE name in pepper mills) this week, $40 down from $70. Too good a deal to pass up so I got one this morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out this morning to look for a tailgate handle for my Ranger. The scrap yard could have had a used one for me in a couple of days for $35 plus tax. The Ford dealership in Richelieu could have had a new one in the same amount of time for $75 plus tax. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,1533,810,6,635,718,1320,5,1534,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-carignan","category-chambly","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-quebec","category-richelieu","category-rving","category-saint-bruno-de-montarville","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}