{"id":2618,"date":"2019-09-10T17:53:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T00:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2019-09-11T05:37:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T12:37:15","slug":"does-it-really-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2618","title":{"rendered":"Does It Really Help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2281\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>So I\u2019m sitting in my 2006 Tacoma pickup in front of one of those drive-through oil-change places, and this young man pokes his head in my window asking if I want the more expensive oil for older vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOlder\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, have you driven more than 75,000 miles\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>I glance at my odometer that registers just north of 240K.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes it really help?\u201d I ask.<\/p>\n<p>Which is what I said last month to my primary care doc when he suggested I cut out a few calories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes it really help?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because I could use the extra $20 and, as a matter of fact, the extra patty on that cheeseburger.<\/p>\n<p>Just sayin\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I\u2019m sitting in my 2006 Tacoma pickup in front of one of those drive-through oil-change places, and this young man pokes his head in my window asking if I want the more expensive oil for older vehicles. \u201cOlder\u201d? \u201cYeah, have you driven more than 75,000 miles\u201d? I glance at my odometer that registers just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}