{"id":7170,"date":"2005-04-04T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/04\/7170\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:06","slug":"7170","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/04\/7170\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With gas prices on the rise, I figured I should top off my tank tonight. I bet they&#8217;ll jump tomorrow&#8230; Almost US$20 later, I had ~7.5 gallons of mid-grade gas. Uggh.<\/p>\n<p>En route to the gas station, I decided to use the car&#8217;s trip meter to clock the distance I just ran. Well, it came up with 0.6 miles. Hmm. I swore it was longer than that last year when I walked it with a GPS. So, when I got back to my house I re-ran it with the GPS in my back pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the GPS doesn&#8217;t work so well in my pocket, so it only logged a few scattered points and 0.6 miles. I guess I&#8217;ll just have to walk it again tomorrow, GPS held high in the air (or at least out in front of me) to establish the true distance.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I ran the loop around my neighborhood non-stop again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m satisfied. I think now I deserve a beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With gas prices on the rise, I figured I should top off my tank tonight. I bet they&#8217;ll jump tomorrow&#8230; Almost US$20 later, I had ~7.5 gallons of mid-grade gas. Uggh. En route to the gas station, I decided to use the car&#8217;s trip meter to clock the distance I just ran. Well, it came\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,57,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-mapping","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14459,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions\/14459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}