{"id":184,"date":"2012-01-06T20:40:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T03:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickdebruhl.wordpress.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2012-02-05T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T20:47:03","slug":"grooming-tools-for-the-car-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Grooming tools for the car nut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get the car guy who has everything?<\/p>\n<p>How about fingernail clippers?<\/p>\n<p>My son and daughter-in-law live in Japan. Today a box arrived in the mail loaded with lots of\u00a0Christmas gifts. There were Japanese slippers, kimonos and teapots and plenty of fun stuff. One of my gifts was a fingernail clipper.<\/p>\n<p>Now I realize that normally fingernail clippers are nothing to get excited over. Especially when they come wrapped for Christmas (can&#8217;t you just picture the reaction from your child when they open clippers on Christmas morning?). But these clippers were different. They were shaped like a car. In fact, if you look closely, they have a hint of BMW styling.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.neatoshop.com\/images\/product\/68\/2968\/Car-Nail-Clipper_12152-l.jpg?resize=360%2C240\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a long way from being the car guy who has everything. But I now have car shaped clippers, and that&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/?p=184' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like><span class=\"fb_share\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/?p=184\" layout=\"box_count\"><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do you get the car guy who has everything? How about fingernail clippers? My son and daughter-in-law live in Japan. Today a \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/?p=184\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misccarthoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27JFw-2Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}