{"id":323,"date":"2007-09-04T00:29:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T04:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=323"},"modified":"2007-09-04T00:29:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T04:29:57","slug":"why-california-sucks-part-1437","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Why California Sucks, Part 1437"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Estimated cost of a new catalytic converter and accompanying sensors for my 1998 Accord, including labor and tax, minus AAA discount: <strong>$902<\/strong> and change.<\/p>\n<p>Revised estimate after determining it needs a &#8220;California&#8221; catalytic converter, though the car was bought in Maryland and has never been west of Kansas: <strong>$1446<\/strong> and change.<\/p>\n<p>Actual cost of same: <strong>$1436.57<\/strong>. I appreciate the $10 saving, but it didn&#8217;t really help much.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that the filthy inhabitants of the filthy state of California owe me $534 (I won&#8217;t worry about the pennies).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estimated cost of a new catalytic converter and accompanying sensors for my 1998 Accord, including labor and tax, minus AAA discount: $902 and change. Revised estimate after determining it needs a &#8220;California&#8221; catalytic converter, though the car was bought in Maryland and has never been west of Kansas: $1446 and change. Actual cost of same: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}