{"id":954,"date":"2010-02-08T20:27:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/?p=954"},"modified":"2010-02-08T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:35:00","slug":"fantacura-not-so-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/08\/fantacura-not-so-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantacura not so fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fantacura (my 2001 Acura 1.7 EL) went in to the shop for a check-up, complaining about no heater heat at idle, and was told to get it&#8217;s affairs in order and make peace with those around it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattclare\/98880171\/\" title=\"Fantacura in the cold by mattclare, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/27\/98880171_f479b0875c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Fantacura in the cold\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not in a bad way, like my Saturn was when it was traded in (sorry Acura in Markham), but it is time to start looking around.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s got a few dings, including losing its front Acura A, and the leather driver&#8217;s seat has been re-stitched by me with fishing line.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent ailment has forced me to realize that 235,000 Km is about all it&#8217;s worth.  170,000 Km was with me behind the wheel, and I think most of that was on the QEW between the Burlington Skyway and St. Catharines.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m scouring the province for a (manual transmission-ed) slightly used Acura CSX, Mazda3 Sport &#8211; or maybe an immaculate Acura EL? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fantacura (my 2001 Acura 1.7 EL) went in to the shop for a check-up, complaining about no heater heat at idle, and was told to get it&#8217;s affairs in order and make peace with those around it. It&#8217;s not in a bad way, like my Saturn was when it was traded in (sorry Acura&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/08\/fantacura-not-so-fantastic\/\">Continue Reading<span> Fantacura not so fantastic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}