{"id":210,"date":"2007-04-01T11:37:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2008-01-02T15:50:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T19:50:17","slug":"cruising-the-streets-of-spokane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"cruising the streets of spokane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i suppose i can thank jana for my new purchase. she called me one day a few weeks ago and said, &#8220;hey, did you know there&#8217;s a vespa shop in town? (i had no clue) well, there&#8217;s a sign out front saying that all vespas are on clearance. you should check it out.&#8221; vespas <em>never <\/em>go on clearance. that&#8217;s like saying there&#8217;s a sale at the apple store. it just doesn&#8217;t happen. as excited as i was, i shortly forgot about the whole conversation. so, she asked me a few days later if i ever got to check it out. no i had not. soon enough though, i for got about that conversation as well. a week or so later she brought it up <em>again<\/em>. &#8220;i drove by the vespa place, but the signs gone and i can&#8217;t see any more scooters.&#8221; well, 3rd times a charm i guess so i decided i needed to check this out. i called the place and they said that they had recently switched owners and the new owners didn&#8217;t want to sell them anymore. DRATS! &#8220;but the old owner still has several left and he&#8217;s selling them at cost. so i found where the old owner was keeping them, and the rest is history. i got a great deal on it and i&#8217;m so happy to be back in the scooter world. click the picture below for a link to a gallery.<\/p>\n<table CLASS=\"\" STYLE=\"width: 194px\">\n<tr>\n<td CLASS=\"\" STYLE=\"height: 194px; background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 0% 50%; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/f\/img\/transparent_album_background.gif\")\" ALIGN=\"center\"><a TARGET=\"_blank\" HREF=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/stevelucky\/NewVespaGT200\"><img STYLE=\"margin-top: 1px; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 4px\" HEIGHT=\"160\" WIDTH=\"160\" SRC=\"http:\/\/lh3.google.com\/image\/stevelucky\/Rg_LW_AtKoE\/AAAAAAAAAb4\/VIDIcND4oC4\/s160-c\/NewVespaGT200.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td CLASS=\"\" STYLE=\"text-align: center; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px\"><a STYLE=\"color: #4d4d4d; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none\" HREF=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/stevelucky\/NewVespaGT200\">New Vespa GT200<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>i have to say, there&#8217;s nothing more refreshing than cruising down the street with the ipod on. there&#8217;s certain tunes that lend themselves well to the scooting experience. to quote my friend clint regarding the song <em>knights of cydonia<\/em> by muse, <em>&#8220;racing down i-90 with my 6 year old dancing and jiving in the back seat telling me this music is like being chased by the police through the forrest on horses has never been so awesome!&#8221; <\/em>i recalled that and threw the song on and have to agree, it&#8217;s a killer song to groove to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i suppose i can thank jana for my new purchase. she called me one day a few weeks ago and said, &#8220;hey, did you know there&#8217;s a vespa shop in town? (i had no clue) well, there&#8217;s a sign out front saying that all vespas are on clearance. you should check it out.&#8221; vespas never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}