{"id":8826,"date":"2015-01-15T21:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T03:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=8826"},"modified":"2015-01-15T21:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T03:15:20","slug":"on-the-road-to-a-bigger-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=8826","title":{"rendered":"On the road to a bigger family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we went to look at minivans.\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 That fated day when we finally bite the bullet and accept the fact that we won&#8217;t be a car family much longer.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never been a fan of minivans&#8211;I would much rather have an SUV, however the cost difference is way to much for us to swallow.\u00a0 And besides, it&#8217;s just a vehicle, right?\u00a0 Who REALLY cares what it is, as long as we can actually travel as a family together from point A to point B.\u00a0 So, we test drove a few options today and now we have to crunch numbers and see what we can get for our car and figure out our budget and what not.\u00a0 It will be a bittersweet day saying goodbye to my faithful Ford Fusion.\u00a0 I have really loved that car.\u00a0 But it sounds like I&#8217;ll probably love our next vehicle as well&#8211;almost every person I&#8217;ve talked to that now has a minivan says they love it and wouldn&#8217;t go back. \u00a0 We&#8217;ll see if I&#8217;m singing the same tune soon!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we went to look at minivans.\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 That fated day when we finally bite the bullet and accept the fact that we won&#8217;t be a car family much longer.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never been a fan of minivans&#8211;I would much rather have an SUV, however the cost difference is way to much for us to swallow.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8827,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8826\/revisions\/8827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}