{"id":9356,"date":"2014-11-05T10:08:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2014-11-05T11:44:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:44:28","slug":"maybe-the-best-10-i-ever-spent-cadillacs-and-brunettes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=9356","title":{"rendered":"May be the best $10 I ever spent\u2026 Cadillacs and brunettes @ 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I saw the Garage Sale sign on Pioneer\u00a0Road; just around the corner from the house we&#8217;ll soon move into. I turned onto a\u00a0very long driveway; between a\u00a0corn field and a bean field, over water filled pot holes, including\u00a0a ninety degree right hand turn, and a ninety degree left hand turn \u2014 finally\u00a0up to a metal pole building with large sliding doors. Just inside that huge doorway sat a dirt encrusted Cadillac Escalade. &#8220;How much for the Escalade?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;$10 includes a charger and a dead battery.&#8221; came Bob&#8217;s\u00a0response. &#8220;I&#8217;ll take it.&#8221; It needed a new battery \u2014 $70. Some new wheels \u2014 $80. And a whole lot of tender loving cleaning by Nanna Anna. That was one happy 3 year old, Jace, the birthday guy, when he finally took the wheel of\u00a0that\u00a0Escalade, with a brunette riding shot gun \u2014 just like dad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I do love to rummage through garage sales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/george-lottermoser.smugmug.com\/organize\/Events\/Family-and-Friends\/Jace-Birthday-03\" target=\"_blank\">birthday photographs can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click photograph for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/L1000692.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9357 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/L1000692-e1415203196496.jpg\" alt=\"L1000692\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/L1000698.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9358 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/L1000698-e1415203226505.jpg\" alt=\"L1000698\" width=\"800\" height=\"465\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leica M, 50 mm Summilux Asph<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/L1190759.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9359 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/L1190759-e1415203260947.jpg\" alt=\"L1190759\" width=\"409\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/L1190778.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9360 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/L1190778-e1415203284947.jpg\" alt=\"L1190778\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leica Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the Garage Sale sign on Pioneer\u00a0Road; just around the corner from the house we&#8217;ll soon move into. I turned onto a\u00a0very long driveway; between a\u00a0corn field and a bean field, over water filled pot holes, including\u00a0a ninety degree right hand turn, and a ninety degree left hand turn \u2014 finally\u00a0up to a metal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,32,27,34,17,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-events","category-family-and-friends","category-people","category-photography","category-portraits","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9371,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/9371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}