{"id":303,"date":"2005-12-31T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/uncategorized\/a-cheaper-journey\/"},"modified":"2005-12-31T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T13:57:00","slug":"cheaper-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/2005\/12\/cheaper-journey.html","title":{"rendered":"A cheaper journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managed to finish off my work and as planned started my journey home. Now this was the usual break up of the cost involved.<br \/>1. Auto to the bus-stop: Rs. 5<br \/>2. Bus to Chennai: Rs. 46<br \/>3. Auto home: Rs. 40-50<br \/>So that&#8217;s about 100 bucks. But I ended spending much lesser.<br \/>1. I stepped into an auto to get to the bus stop. Midway he got another customer who wanted to load some luggage and the customer&#8217;s friend offered to drop me off at the station on his bike as there would be a short delay otherwise. <em>Cost incurred: Nil!<\/em><br \/>2. For some vague reason, the bus ticket cost me just <em>Rs. 41<\/em>. Not that it&#8217;s like saving a million bucks, but hey&#8230;. you&#8217;ll never know how much five bucks can get!<br \/>3. I stepped off the bus and strolled towards the autostand. It&#8217;s quite a task bargaining with an auto driver and I felt tired. Amazingly I saw this local bus that goes pretty close to home and I jumped onto it. <em>Cost incurred: Rs. 3<\/em><br \/>And then I just walked the ten minute trip home from where I got off from my second bus!<br \/>To sum it all up &#8211; Total amount saved: Rs. 50 approximately. That&#8217;s about a dollar and probably does not amount to much&#8230; but man! it feels good!!I&#8217;m sure God has a purpose in me saving that 50 bucks. My ears and eyes are open!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managed to finish off my work and as planned started my journey home. Now this was the usual break up of the cost involved.1. Auto to the bus-stop: Rs. 52. Bus to Chennai: Rs. 463. Auto home: Rs. 40-50So that&#8217;s about 100 bucks. But I ended spending much lesser.1. I stepped into an auto to get to the bus stop. Midway he got another customer who wanted to load some luggage and the customer&#8217;s friend offered to drop me off at the station on his bike as there would be a short delay otherwise. Cost incurred: Nil!2. For some vague reason, the bus ticket cost me just Rs. 41. Not that it&#8217;s like saving a million bucks, but hey&#8230;. you&#8217;ll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paWFfI-4T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}