{"id":783,"date":"2009-02-27T23:09:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T03:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/?page_id=783"},"modified":"2009-02-28T22:25:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T02:25:32","slug":"cars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/about\/my-interests\/cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posing with cars has been a family tradition for generations. I began posing with our ’31 or ’32 Chevy named “Betsy” when I was a year old (running boards and fenders were a big help for posing small children). I’ve been posing with cars ever since. I’ll find many more, but here are the first few.<\/p>\n

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\"interests-corvette\"<\/a>In the meantime, fast forward to 2001. This is what I wrote in May that year about my 1961 Corvette:<\/p>\n

A vexing question: How to celebrate my mistress’ 40th birthday?<\/em><\/p>\n

We first met when she was eight years old.\u00a0 She became mine when she was 10 years old and I was 18 years her senior.\u00a0 The difference in our ages seemed like a lot back then.\u00a0 Now that she is 40 and I am 58 the difference doesn’t seem so great.\u00a0 She is eligible for an antique license plate and I am eligible for AARP.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to her Vehicle Identification Number she rolled off the assembly line in May 1961.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ve been together for 30 years – three-quarters of her life and nearly half of mine.\u00a0 I remember the day I drove her home.\u00a0 I went out to the garage that evening and just sat behind the wheel – what a feeling!\u00a0 Lots of memories since then.<\/em><\/p>\n

She doesn’t look her age, but I look mine.<\/em><\/p>\n

So how does one celebrate a birthday like this?\u00a0 I know Corvette folk do have birthday parties.\u00a0 But this doesn’t seem like a party event to me.\u00a0 Maybe Karen and I will take her out for ice cream and reminisce for a while.<\/em><\/p>\n

And I think I’ll make her a birthday card.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posing with cars has been a family tradition for generations. I began posing with our ’31 or ’32 Chevy named “Betsy” when I was a year old (running boards and fenders were a big help for posing small children). I’ve been posing with cars ever since. I’ll find many more, but here are the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/783\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipkunze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}