{"id":245,"date":"2004-09-28T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T04:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2004\/09\/28\/the-new-xbox\/"},"modified":"2004-09-28T21:02:46","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T04:02:46","slug":"the-new-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/the-new-xbox\/","title":{"rendered":"The new xBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we bought a Scion xB (I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be calling it The Boxcar) today.  I think it&#8217;ll be ready for us tomorrow.  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/uploads\/boxcar.png\">black<\/a> with an automatic transmission.  Gets 31mpg around town and 35mpg on the highway.  We just did the base model, but it&#8217;s still pretty loaded: A\/C, AM\/FM\/CD that&#8217;s satellite and MP3 capable, six speakers, power mirrors, windows and locks, remote keyless entry, traction control (front wheel drive), ABS brakes, tinted windows, etc&#8230;  They market the things at GenY people, so there are all these really silly accessories out there (cupholder backlighting, anyone?) which we passed on.  I guess you could load the thing with stuff and make it upwards of $20k if you really tried, but like I said, most of it is pretty silly.  The craziest thing about the car is the abundance of passenger seating in the rear.  It is unreal.  I can sit back there and still have 6&#8243; of space between my knees and the back of the driver&#8217;s seat (with the seat all the way back).  The tradeoff, of course, is trunk space.  But we checked my sister&#8217;s Mazda mini-van and the xB has easily as much trunk depth, if not more.  Height is another matter, since the van is so tall&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s our first new car (as opposed to &#8220;new to us&#8221;) and we&#8217;re pretty pleased.  Truman digs the dark windows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we bought a Scion xB (I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be calling it The Boxcar) today. I think it&#8217;ll be ready for us tomorrow. It&#8217;s black with an automatic transmission. Gets 31mpg around town and 35mpg on the highway. We just did the base model, but it&#8217;s still pretty loaded: A\/C, AM\/FM\/CD that&#8217;s satellite and MP3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-3X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}