{"id":1476,"date":"2012-12-19T00:48:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T00:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2012-12-19T00:48:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T00:48:33","slug":"how-i-survived-breaking-up-with-my-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/how-i-survived-breaking-up-with-my-car\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Survived Breaking Up with My Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">Original article by Erin L. McCoy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/happiness\/how-i-survived-breaking-up-with-my-car\">yesmagazine.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/happiness\/how-i-survived-breaking-up-with-my-car\/car-driving-byjoseelorza-555.jpg\/image_large\" alt=\"car-driving-byjoseelorza-555.jpg\" width=\"555\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Where I grew up, owning a car was a necessity rather than a choice, and where it\u2019s not a choice it can quickly become an emblem of pride.<\/p>\n<p>But when I moved to Seattle a few months ago, I had a choice for the first time. I decided to sell my car and try a life without it\u2014though it shuddered to an unsurprising halt before I had the chance to sell. Considering I already couldn\u2019t park it on hills (where it refused to roll any direction but down), it wouldn\u2019t have survived Seattle anyway.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/happiness\/how-i-survived-breaking-up-with-my-car\">Continued at original site<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article by Erin L. McCoy at yesmagazine.org Where I grew up, owning a car was a necessity rather than a choice, and where it\u2019s not a choice it can quickly become an emblem of pride. But when I moved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/how-i-survived-breaking-up-with-my-car\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6846,6849,6850],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-ownership","category-freedom","category-sustainable-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}