{"id":4040,"date":"2013-06-21T23:51:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T23:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2013-06-20T23:47:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:47:12","slug":"hi-mr-hyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=4040","title":{"rendered":"Hi Mr Hyde!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BH and I had been thinking of getting a 2nd car for awhile. We have been looking for something we both liked.. however, it&#8217;s really hard to find a used car of our criteria. In the end, we pulled the trigger on a custom build Mini Cooper S. Yes.. we decided that since we are only young ONCE..and the chances of driving a coupe in future is silm..so we just went for it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We ordered our car on April 26 and only received it last week! It was a long wait but worth it! After 6 months of searching, we bought the car! that&#8217;s how long we took!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the process&#8230; Once we ordered the car, we could track it&#8217;s process on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miniusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mini website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 9 &#8211; Hyde built and waiting for transport on vessel Tulane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini-awaiting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4045\" alt=\"mini awaiting\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini-awaiting.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini-awaiting.jpg 500w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini-awaiting-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 2 &#8211; Hyde arrived at PORT HUENEME, CA\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/enroute.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4043\" alt=\"enroute\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/enroute.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/enroute.jpg 500w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/enroute-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 3 &#8211; Arrived at distribution centre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dist-centre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4042\" alt=\"dist centre\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dist-centre.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dist-centre.jpg 500w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dist-centre-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 8 &#8211; At our dealer!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dealer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4041\" alt=\"dealer\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dealer.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dealer.jpg 500w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dealer-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 15 &#8211; Collected!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hyde.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4044\" alt=\"hyde\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hyde.jpg\" width=\"486\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hyde.jpg 486w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hyde-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More pictures of our baby \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s a Mini Green Park package!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4046\" alt=\"mini1\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini1.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini1.jpg 404w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini1-240x240.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was LOVE at first sight!!! So difficult to take our eyes off it \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4047\" alt=\"mini2\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini2.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini2.jpg 404w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini2-240x240.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4048\" alt=\"mini3\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini3.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini3.jpg 404w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mini3-240x240.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[P\/S: The above is the best picture of us with our new bulldog, Mimi, plush toy given to us by our dealer. Pardon the reflection on BH&#8217;s forehead]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WP_20130615_010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4049\" alt=\"WP_20130615_010\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WP_20130615_010.jpg\" width=\"454\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WP_20130615_010.jpg 454w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WP_20130615_010-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yay to more new adventures! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BH and I had been thinking of getting a 2nd car for awhile. We have been looking for something we both liked.. however, it&#8217;s really hard to find a used car of our criteria. In the end, we pulled the trigger on a custom build Mini Cooper S. Yes.. we decided that since we are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=4040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hi Mr Hyde!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4052,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}