{"id":10430,"date":"2016-11-30T08:41:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=10430"},"modified":"2016-11-30T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T23:00:23","slug":"suby-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/11\/30\/suby-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Suby III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original Suby was the first car I ever bought, way back in 1999, and thus far he is the favorite of all the cars that I&#8217;ve owned.  We went on an <a href=\"\/journal\/tag\/alaska\/\">epic 13,000 mile road trip through Alaska<\/a>, explored the Western United States, and only parted ways because 145,000 miles had elapsed over seven years and I was beginning to fear for his health.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 <a href=\"\/journal\/2006\/04\/25\/son-of-suby\/\">Son of Suby<\/a> arrived, and while that car didn&#8217;t share as many adventures as its predecessor, we still managed the occasional <a href=\"\/journal\/tag\/banjo-tour\/\">7,000 mile bonding experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Son of Suby passed his tenth birthday a while ago, so on Sunday I sent a few emails, haggled over trade-in values, and eventually went to the dealer to make the acquaintance of Suby III.  As I write this he is parked out in the driveway, looking dapper, <i>and<\/i> he has a moonroof. Good times lie ahead.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/alaska\/pages\/07-roll\/19-post-dalton-subaru-and-me.html#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Suby and me on the Dalton Highway\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"399\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/07-roll\/19-post-dalton-subaru-and-me.jpg\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">The Original Suby on the Dalton Highway, way up in Northern Alaska.<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Son of Suby\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/iphone\/3265-culver-city-son-of-suby.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Son of Suby on our last day together.<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Suby III\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/iphone\/3266-santa-monica-suby-iii.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Suby III, showing his game face at the dealer.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original Suby was the first car I ever bought, way back in 1999, and thus far he is the favorite of all the cars that I&#8217;ve owned. We went on an epic 13,000 mile road trip through Alaska, explored the Western United States, and only parted ways because 145,000 miles had elapsed over seven &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/11\/30\/suby-iii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suby III&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,48],"class_list":["post-10430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-recap","tag-subaru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10430"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10446,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430\/revisions\/10446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}