{"id":461,"date":"2009-10-01T12:16:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2009-10-01T12:16:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:16:36","slug":"fixed-my-car-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/01\/fixed-my-car-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixed my car today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With WD-40, no less!<\/p>\n<p>The ignition has been getting stickier and stickier. Yesterday I almost couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get my key back out of it. So this morning, I gave it a shot of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the wonder drug that works wonders,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <em>et voila<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>A good thing. My car just turned 15 years old, and in the last couple of months I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had to repair the brakes and the radiator. I also had to replace the timing belt and the water pump. (The latter two were long-deferred 90K mile maintenance.) Adds up to about $1600 this year. Which isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t too bad. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about $170\/month in repairs and maintenance, which beats a monthly payment of $300 or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With WD-40, no less! The ignition has been getting stickier and stickier. Yesterday I almost couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get my key back out of it. So this morning, I gave it a shot of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the wonder drug that works wonders,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d et voila! A good thing. My car just turned 15 years old, and in the last couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-7r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}