{"id":51563,"date":"2022-05-13T00:33:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51563"},"modified":"2022-05-13T00:33:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:33:50","slug":"now-for-some-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51563","title":{"rendered":"Now &#8230; for some good news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>We live in an era of delays, shortages, dashed hopes and frustration &#8230; correct? Not entirely.<\/p>\n<p>I want to share a bit of good news that just arrived in my email inbox. It comes from the manufacturer of the pickup truck we ordered in March.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I went shopping recently for a truck to replace Big Jake the Pickup we have owned for several years. We ended up buying a brand-new Ford Ranger pickup. Except they didn&#8217;t have a vehicle in stock at the dealer in McKinney. We ordered it from the factory. We chose the bells and whistles we wanted installed on the vehicle and placed the order.<\/p>\n<p>Ford told us the vehicle would be scheduled for production the week of May 23. Today came the message that told us the production schedule had &#8220;changed.&#8221; I cringed. Then I opened the message. Ford decided to start assembling the vehicle next Monday, <em>the week of May 16.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I mention this because of all the negativity to which we&#8217;ve been subjected. Inflation, supply-chain crises, shortages of parts &#8230; blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n<p>Our retirement journey is trudging on regardless of when our new vehicle arrives. It looks for all the world, though, as if it will arrive ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in an era of delays, shortages, dashed hopes and frustration &#8230; correct? Not entirely. I want to share a bit of good news that just arrived in my email inbox. It comes from the manufacturer of the pickup truck we ordered in March. My wife and I went shopping recently for a truck &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51563\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now &#8230; for some good news<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3920],"class_list":["post-51563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51564,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51563\/revisions\/51564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}