{"id":1712,"date":"2008-06-17T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T13:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/06\/17\/getting-better\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T19:22:55","slug":"getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/06\/17\/getting-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I bought my scooter the on-line description said that it got an estimated 87 miles to the gallon. Since purchasing it in March, I&#8217;ve been getting nowhere near that amount. Previous readings were between 53 and 67 miles per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Our friend, Jeff, who has owned scooters and motorcycles for years said that you need to break the scooter in first and then you&#8217;ll start getting better mileage. I think he&#8217;s right. I filled the tank today and discovered that I got nearly 77 miles per gallon this last time. Not bad.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that these Asian made scooters are notorious for having inaccurate fuel guages and odometers (which would explain why I always fill the tank when it&#8217;s below the empty line yet still can&#8217;t fit gallon of gas into the 1.32-gallon tank).<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the 20 miles per gallon that Randy gets in his car, I suppose I should be thankful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I bought my scooter the on-line description said that it got an estimated 87 miles to the gallon. Since purchasing it in March, I&#8217;ve been getting nowhere near that amount. Previous readings were between 53 and 67 miles per gallon. Our friend, Jeff, who has owned scooters and motorcycles for years said that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}