{"id":10686,"date":"2026-09-05T00:11:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10686"},"modified":"2026-09-04T20:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:32:44","slug":"white-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/09\/05\/white-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"White Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were up at 4 and for hour upon hour it was the perfect day.<\/p>\n<p>Many miles away, around noon, the afternoon had its challenges. It was still almost perfect until 4:30 or so.<\/p>\n<p>By five, it was back to perfect. <\/p>\n<p>Permit me to explain. <\/p>\n<p>The Subaru enjoyed driving around in Utah so very much that it decided to stay another two weeks without us, and go to a spa that specializes in clutches.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/silence-2026-09-04-205934.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/silence-2026-09-04-205934.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/silence-2026-09-04-205934-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/silence-2026-09-04-205934-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/silence-2026-09-04-205934-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/silence-2026-09-04-205934-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That was a garden-variety problem. <\/p>\n<p>But then &#8230; well, this was the only rental car available for 150 miles in any direction. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/silence-2026-09-04-205941.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/silence-2026-09-04-205941.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/silence-2026-09-04-205941-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/silence-2026-09-04-205941-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/silence-2026-09-04-205941-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/silence-2026-09-04-205941-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And it seems the price of U-Hauls has gone utterly insane like the price of food and motels and other sometimes necessary things. <\/p>\n<p>Other than that &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like I said.<\/p>\n<p>A perfectly wonderful day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were up at 4 and for hour upon hour it was the perfect day. Many miles away, around noon, the afternoon had its challenges. It was still almost perfect until 4:30 or so. By five, it was back to perfect. Permit me to explain. The Subaru enjoyed driving around in Utah so very much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10689,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions\/10689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}