{"id":59104,"date":"2025-11-14T20:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59104"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:22:11","slug":"a-brief-post-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59104","title":{"rendered":"A brief post script &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p><strong>ROANOKE, Va.<\/strong> &#8212; While I realize my recent tale of woe regarding my rented car is no great shakes in the real world, I thought I would share this brief post script with you.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The car I rented at Roanoke Regional Airport froze up on me. The battery was deader than Francisco Franco. I called the rental company and it sent a tow truck operator to me to jump-start the 2025 car that croaked. It started nicely. She said I should let it for a few minutes before returning it to the rental station.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I did and got a nice replacement vehicle for my trouble. I received the replacement car in time to attend the graveside service at the end of the funeral that drew me here in the first place.<\/p>\r\n<p>Even better news is that the replacement is easier to enter and exit than the low-rider I got in the first place. This old man&#8217;s body just doesn&#8217;t bend like it did in the past.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Life is good &#8230; again!<\/p>\r\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>ROANOKE, Va. &#8212; While I realize my recent tale of woe regarding my rented car is no great shakes in the real world, I thought I would share this brief post script with you. The car I rented at Roanoke Regional Airport froze up on me. The battery was deader than Francisco Franco. I called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A brief post script &#8230;<\/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":[10499,10500],"class_list":["post-59104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-blue-ridge-parkway","tag-car-rental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59104","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=59104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59106,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59104\/revisions\/59106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}