{"id":3735,"date":"2018-01-01T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2018-01-01T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T11:00:43","slug":"my-car-plans-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/01\/my-car-plans-for-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"My Car: Plans for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new year! I didn&#8217;t do so well at accomplishing <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/2017\/12\/28\/my-car-2017-report-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my goals for my car last year<\/a>, but this year I think I can do it. Here&#8217;s what I have planned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3736\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2018_01_01_01.jpg\" alt=\"2018_01_01_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Replace the Civic.<\/strong> It&#8217;s time. It&#8217;s been time since March, actually. It has enough problems that I don&#8217;t want to deal with that it&#8217;s time to just get a new one. I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;ll get, maybe another 96-98 Civic, or maybe something else will pop up that I want.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Try autocross. <\/strong>I didn&#8217;t get to do this last year because of my rear suspension breaking, but this year I hope to have a new car before the first local autocross event comes around so I can actually do it this time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make the truck liveable.<\/strong> My &#8220;new&#8221; 1990 F-250 is an adventure. I hope to make it a better daily driver and more comfortable. That&#8217;s all I want to really try with it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As always, keep following the blog to see what I actually get done on this list. I&#8217;ll continue to post every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures every weekday on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new year! I didn&#8217;t do so well at accomplishing my goals for my car last year, but this year I think I can do it. Here&#8217;s what I have planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}