{"id":3813,"date":"2016-12-21T19:49:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T01:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2016-12-21T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T01:49:38","slug":"full-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/full-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Full circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first experience in the car business, however peripherally, was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/?p=1642\">National Plug-in Day, 2013<\/a>. I made a presentation, about the Volt, for\u00a0the sales staff at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ClassicChevrolet.com\" target=\"_blank\">Classic Chevrolet<\/a>, and was offered the opportunity to help the sales staff with Volt customers&#8217; questions.<\/p>\n<p>And the rest, as they say, is history&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>On that very first day, a person, who only knew me through the Volt Owner&#8217;s Group on Facebook, and this blog, visited the dealership so we could get to know one another. Later that year, in December, once I was <em>actually employed<\/em> at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ClassicChevrolet.com\" target=\"_blank\">Classic Chevrolet<\/a>, he came back and leased his first Chevy Volt from me.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>He was my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/?p=1800\">very first Volt customer<\/a><\/em><\/span>, and I&#8217;ll always be grateful it was Al. He has become a friend and part-time\u00a0colleague, as we have worked shows together, talking with folks about Volts.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he called to see if I was at work, and finding that I was, came in and bought a new 2017 Volt from me! Thanks, Al!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/?attachment_id=3814\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3814\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Time-Flies.jpg\" alt=\"Time Flies\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Time-Flies.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Time-Flies-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Time-Flies-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Time-Flies-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Time-Flies-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Time-Flies-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first experience in the car business, however peripherally, was on National Plug-in Day, 2013. I made a presentation, about the Volt, for\u00a0the sales&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stc_notifier_status":"sent","_stc_notifier_sent_time":"2022-05-05 10:30:18","_stc_notifier_request":false,"_stc_notifier_prevent":false,"_stc_subscriber_keywords":"","_stc_subscriber_search_areas":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theev-angelist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}