{"id":135,"date":"2015-12-19T05:45:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T05:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/?p=135"},"modified":"2016-02-13T13:18:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T13:18:43","slug":"half-hitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/2015\/12\/19\/half-hitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Hitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The half hitch is a simple overhand knot, where the working end of a line is brought over and under the standing part. <strong>Insecure on its own<\/strong>, it is a valuable component of a wide variety of useful and reliable hitches, bends, and knots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I should have known the deal was too good to be true. \u00a0I found an older model B&amp;W companion hitch on Amazon for less than $300! \u00a0This is $500-$600 less than retail! \u00a0But there it was, part number RVK3000. \u00a0However, upon arrival we only received box 1 of 2&#8230;.a half hitch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Ca3RWu\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/733\/23731250332_fd37bdeb1d_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20151218_220523289\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I immediately logged on to my account to verify I had purchased an RVK3000 and not an RVB3500&#8230;part number checked out. \u00a0So I thought maybe there would be tracking info for the 2nd box&#8230;.nope, it showed a status of &#8220;delivered&#8221;. \u00a0So I contacted the seller. \u00a0They acknowledged there mistake and are arranging for return shipping on their dime. \u00a0Super bummer but I guess I&#8217;m not surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The half hitch is a simple overhand knot, where the working end of a line is brought over and under the standing part. Insecure on its own, it is a valuable component of a wide variety of useful and reliable hitches, bends, and knots. I should have known the deal was too good to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}