{"id":3250,"date":"2008-06-16T09:23:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T17:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2008-06-16T09:23:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T17:23:25","slug":"the-best-insurance-bargain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"The Best Insurance Bargain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first bought car insurance (it was in the summer of 1985), my State Farm agent Bernie recommended I get towing insurance. It cost about $15 a year.<\/p>\n<p>With towing insurance, I get 100% of my towing expenses reimbursed.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of 20 years, I&#8217;ve needed a tow about ten times for a total cost of around $600, all of which has been reimbursed to me.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve not needed AAA.<\/p>\n<p>I bought my first hotplate this morning. And a 12&quot; aluminum pot. And right now I&#8217;m cooking split pea soup.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m pre-diabetes, I&#8217;m going to have to cut starch out of my diet and start cooking a lot of beans.<\/p>\n<p>This week I&#8217;m going to Google &quot;pre-diabetes&quot; and see what other changes I need to make to my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first bought car insurance (it was in the summer of 1985), my State Farm agent Bernie recommended I get towing insurance. It cost about $15 a year. With towing insurance, I get 100% of my towing expenses reimbursed. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3250\">Continue reading <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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[709,21],"tags":[9645,30168,9644,9564,9008,9646],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance","category-personal","tag-best-insurance","tag-google","tag-hotplate","tag-pre-diabetes","tag-split-pea-soup","tag-starch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}