{"id":1934,"date":"2023-12-14T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T22:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2024-06-02T20:46:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T04:46:55","slug":"1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=1934","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wrapup-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2004\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wrapup-1024x806.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wrapup-1024x806.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wrapup-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wrapup-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wrapup-768x604.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wrapup-1536x1208.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wrapup-2048x1611.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wrapup-624x491.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe year got off to a good start. Remember the billion-dollar lottery at the beginning of 2023? We won! Well, not the whole thing:<a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/check-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1944 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/check-scaled-e1702537528674-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/check-scaled-e1702537528674-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/check-scaled-e1702537528674-1024x503.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/check-scaled-e1702537528674-150x74.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/check-scaled-e1702537528674-768x377.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/check-scaled-e1702537528674-1536x755.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/check-scaled-e1702537528674-2048x1006.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/check-scaled-e1702537528674-624x307.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The big news though was about our &#8220;new&#8221; electric car.\u00a0 We bought <a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?page_id=1910\">our little Kona<\/a> at the end of 2022, but we didn&#8217;t drive it much until March, when we finally got a place to plug it in.\u00a0 Faithful readers will remember accounts of remote bicycle trips in <a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=1698\">June<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=1719\">July<\/a>, and then our first overnight journey, out to the <a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=1767\">Pacific Coast,<\/a> in August. Until then the car still didn&#8217;t have a thousand miles on its virtual odometer. We fixed that, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=1789\">trip to Arizona in October.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For fans of provocative essays, there&#8217;s one from July:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/PointedText\/?page_id=1062\">Singularity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s about all the news we had time to make!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year got off to a good start. Remember the billion-dollar lottery at the beginning of 2023? We won! Well, not the whole thing: The big news though was about our &#8220;new&#8221; electric car.\u00a0 We bought our little Kona at the end of 2022, but we didn&#8217;t drive it much until March, when we finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}