{"id":102,"date":"2010-09-14T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2010\/09\/mobile-car-dude.html"},"modified":"2012-10-28T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T11:59:11","slug":"mobile-car-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/2010\/09\/mobile-car-dude.html","title":{"rendered":"mobile car dude :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My car decided to give up the ghost this afternoon. Well actually it was the battery that gave up. I think the heat out here destroys them pretty quickly.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAfter waiting an hour for the roadside-assistance guy from the insurers (thank goodness I wasn&#8217;t still in Jozi) I consulted my dear friend google (thank goodness for mobile internet) and found, on expatwomen, the number for a battery dude.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnd wouldn&#8217;t you know he and the insurance guy arrived within minutes of each other despite me telling the first not to bother after 80 mins had passed.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1412\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/battery-dude.jpg\" alt=\"battery-dude\" title=\"battery-dude\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/battery-dude.jpg 320w, https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-content\/uploads\/battery-dude-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Kuwaiti power]<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!--more-->Long story short, I am now the proud, ok maybe grateful, owner of a brand new Kuwaiti-made battery.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you need the battery dude&#8217;s number here it is\u00a0<strike><span style=\"background-color: black;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strike>. Save it now!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIncidentally I am off for my mini summer vacation this friday! Woohoo another glorious week in France. I can&#8217;t believe its been a year since our last trip there, time flies in Dubai doesn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nChat soon. A bientot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My car decided to give up the ghost this afternoon. Well actually it was the battery that gave up. I think the heat out here destroys them pretty quickly. After waiting an hour for the roadside-assistance guy from the insurers (thank goodness I wasn&#8217;t still in Jozi) I consulted my dear friend google (thank goodness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrrrr","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catinthedunes.com\/Dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}