{"id":13311,"date":"2020-10-03T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13311"},"modified":"2020-10-03T11:09:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T10:09:51","slug":"the-ticking-of-the-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13311","title":{"rendered":"The ticking of the calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because it&#8217;s that time of year, I&#8217;ve just had the car serviced; two years old, time marching quicker than it should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was prompted to book the service when the &#8216;Change oil soon&#8217; light came on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My first thought was &#8216;Why can&#8217;t the warning say &#8216;Change *the* oil soon&#8217;? Why do we have to drop words out of sign or notice to make the message incorrect?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My second thought was &#8216;How many miles have I done in this car in the last year?&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><s>Less<\/s> Fewer than 2,500 miles it turns out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, today I took the Ninja for her MOT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It should have been six months ago, but the MoT changed the rules because of C19, and gave some of us an extension of six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Needless to say the Ninja had no issues with the test. Her MOT certificate shows that in the last 18 months she&#8217;s done slightly less than 3,000 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So in the last 18 months my combined forms of transport have travelled 5,500 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t see that increasing very much in the next six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it&#8217;s that time of year, I&#8217;ve just had the car serviced; two years old, time marching quicker than it should. I was prompted to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}