{"id":189,"date":"2007-03-25T17:26:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/189"},"modified":"2007-03-25T17:26:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T21:26:23","slug":"waste-of-time-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/waste-of-time-and-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste of Time and Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my car inspected yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 According to the inspection results that I was handed, my horn is functional, my fuel tank cap works, and my headlights work.\u00c2\u00a0 Funny thing is, the guy who &#8220;inspected&#8221; my car never looked at these things, or anything else for that matter.\u00c2\u00a0 He drove my car into the inspection bay, so I guess he tested the brakes, but that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Why does the state require car inspections?\u00c2\u00a0 Nominally, it&#8217;s about making sure the roads are safe by keeping dangerous vehicles off the road.\u00c2\u00a0 What really happened: The inspector got a few bucks.\u00c2\u00a0 The state got a few bucks.\u00c2\u00a0 I stood around smelling gas fumes for 15 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 And the roads aren&#8217;t one whit safer.\u00c2\u00a0 As the title of the post goes: waste of time and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my car inspected yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 According to the inspection results that I was handed, my horn is functional, my fuel tank cap works, and my headlights work.\u00c2\u00a0 Funny thing is, the guy who &#8220;inspected&#8221; my car never looked at these things, or anything else for that matter.\u00c2\u00a0 He drove my car into the inspection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}