{"id":348,"date":"2005-06-21T12:29:05","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T12:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/there_is_little.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:50","slug":"there_is_little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/there_is_little.shtml","title":{"rendered":"There Is Little Better Than &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Daniel at <a href=\"http:\/\/aliensoil.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/there-is-little-better-than.html\">Alien Soil<\/a> (some borrowed\/stolen from him or his commenters)&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is little better than a warm sunny evening and an old, rear wheel drive, V8 powered convertible.  No radio, just the sound of the wind and the low rumble of the lightly muffled exhaust.  Stress?  What stress?<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than my wife&#8217;s embrace.<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than a perfectly executed turn.  Wide at entry, nailing the apex, wide at exit and getting around the corner a bit faster than most would dare.<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than an evening of good, deep conversation with good friends.<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than perfectly sweetened (or just right peach or raspberry) iced tea.<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redrobin.com\/flash.html\">Red Robin&#8217;s<\/a> Banzai Burger.<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than sleeping on a cool night with the windows wide open and the covers pulled up around your neck.<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than a weekend nap.<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than 50&#8217;s &#8211; 60&#8217;s American cars with perfect paint and flawless chrome, lowered with big aluminum or chrome wheels.<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than the satisfaction of fixing your own cars and saving $100&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than close vocal harmony.  Think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spebsqsa.org\">Barbershop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkalley.com\">folk<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/americanrootsmusic\/\">American Roots<\/a> music.<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than fresh McDonalds fries.<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than pulling in the driveway and watching the joyous bouncing a giggling of my girls as they rejoice that &#8220;Daddy&#8217;s home!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than a full throttle take off in an old V8 ragtop.  Pushed back in the seat and the marvelous sound of that V8 through the open top.<\/li>\n<li>There is little better than my wife&#8217;s smile.  All is right with the world if I can see her smile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How about you?  Leave them on your blog (Trackack please) or in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daniel at Alien Soil (some borrowed\/stolen from him or his commenters)&#8230; There is little better than a warm sunny evening and an old, rear wheel drive, V8 powered convertible.<a href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/there_is_little.shtml\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There Is Little Better Than &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>There Is Little Better Than ... - salguod.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/there_is_little.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"There Is Little Better Than ... - salguod.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Daniel at Alien Soil (some borrowed\/stolen from him or his commenters)&#8230; 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