{"id":327,"date":"2007-11-24T15:10:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T21:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/shopping-for-mini-vans\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T15:42:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T21:42:52","slug":"shopping-for-mini-vans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/shopping-for-mini-vans\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOPPING FOR MINI-VANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"l1dy4sryp26dq2zwohxj3v7u_500.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/l1dy4sryp26dq2zwohxj3v7u_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/l1dy4sryp26dq2zwohxj3v7u_500.jpg\" alt=\"l1dy4sryp26dq2zwohxj3v7u_500.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight we went to look at the Honda Odyssey, the current front runner in our search.  We are between the Toyota Mini-Van and the Honda, but after tonight I think we\u2019re almost convinced the Honda is the one we\u2019re going to get. Now we\u2019re just waiting to hear from our accountant if it should be a 2007 or 2008 purchase for tax reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The one we looked at is the Touring model, and includes all of the fun goodies.<\/p>\n<p>You can find our more <a href=\"http:\/\/automobiles.honda.com\/odyssey\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we went to look at the Honda Odyssey, the current front runner in our search. We are between the Toyota Mini-Van and the Honda, but after tonight I think we\u2019re almost convinced the Honda is the one we\u2019re going to get. Now we\u2019re just waiting to hear from our accountant if it should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","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":[3,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-text","category-web-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-5h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":320,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/17\/32-weeks-and-counting\/","url_meta":{"origin":327,"position":0},"title":"32 Weeks and Counting","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"November 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This week Brenda is at her 32 week mark. 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