{"id":493,"date":"2012-12-06T13:13:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T21:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/?p=493"},"modified":"2012-12-06T13:13:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T21:13:31","slug":"mea-culpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/mea-culpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mea culpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to wait until April, but this darn price increase forced me to commit earlier than I wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>What was it that I did&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I put my deposit down for one of these &#8211; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8245538@N06\/7450551274\/\" title=\"IMG_0989 by dennis_p, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7122\/7450551274_91c5c26fae_b.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"IMG_0989\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What can I say?  I really like BMWs, but the styling of the i3 leaves much to be desired.<\/p>\n<p>The i3 4 door is ok, it just doesn&#8217;t look like other BMWs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8245538@N06\/8194181018\/\" title=\"IMG_4181 by dennis_p, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8482\/8194181018_5d4ab64694_b.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"IMG_4181\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8245538@N06\/8193092879\/\" title=\"IMG_4183 by dennis_p, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8057\/8193092879_e97abb8656_b.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"IMG_4183\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The newly unveiled i3 Coupe looks even better, but I do want the four door functionality!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8245538@N06\/8233110266\/\" title=\"IMG_4277 by dennis_p, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8060\/8233110266_82e5af6965_b.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"IMG_4277\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8245538@N06\/8232053057\/\" title=\"IMG_4299 by dennis_p, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8200\/8232053057_d3d9f0295a_b.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"IMG_4299\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to put down the deposit by April to take delivery of the Model S by the time the ActiveE lease ends and I am forced to give back the car, but Tesla&#8217;s price increase and the inevitability of it all got me off the fence.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t to say that I won&#8217;t be getting an i3, but it does mean that the deal has to be that much better to get me to one as well.  A deposit on a Model S at this time <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did it&#8230; I was hoping to wait until April, but this darn price increase forced me to commit earlier than I wanted to. What was it that I did&#8230; I put my deposit down for one of these &#8211; What can I say? I really like BMWs, but the styling of the i3 leaves &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/mea-culpa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mea culpa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","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":""},"categories":[2,12,21],"tags":[87,147,153,225,299,733],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activee","category-other-electric-cars","category-tesla-model-s","tag-activee","tag-bmw","tag-bmwi","tag-comparing-other-electric-cars-to-activee","tag-electric-car","tag-tesla-model-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}