{"id":140,"date":"2009-11-03T13:06:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2009-11-04T15:07:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T19:07:18","slug":"the-fish-turns-111111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/what\/the-fish-turns-111111\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Fish” turns 111,111"},"content":{"rendered":"

My car (nicknamed “The Fish” for it’s fishlike appearance) just celebrated a birthday of sorts.<\/p>\n

First of all, the car is a 1999 Ford Taurus SE.. and as you can see in this dealer picture – it has all of the features of an aquatic animal – two bulbous eyes, two smaller “nostril” looking things, sideview mirrors that could possibly be fins, and a mouth where the ford emblem is.<\/p>\n

\"The
The FISH! (Well, another Fish)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been working for a while on the possibility of using a WebpadDT as a touchscreen for a car pc. The inside of the Fish is huge – but at 8 inches or so, the WebpadDT takes up a lot<\/em> of space. On the other hand, it’s quite a bit cheaper than a lilliput screen.<\/p>\n

While driving home this weekend, I looked down and noticed an upcoming milestone:<\/p>\n

\"111,108
111,108 miles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got the camera ready – almost at 111,111 miles. Good Old Lucky 111,111 – make a wish!
\nWell… maybe not. Turns out 111,108 is an unlucky number:<\/p>\n

\"My
My Brake Light is Out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My brake light was apparently out. A quick notice from the cop, and I was on my way. Being only about a mile from my house meant I had to drive around the block a few times, but finally I hit it:<\/p>\n

\"111,111
111,111 miles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My car (nicknamed “The Fish” for it’s fishlike appearance) just celebrated a birthday of sorts. First of all, the car is a 1999 Ford Taurus SE.. and as you can see in this dealer picture – it has all of the features of an aquatic animal – two bulbous eyes, two smaller “nostril” looking things, … Continue reading The “Fish” turns 111,111<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.braindeadprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}