{"id":683,"date":"2016-02-20T23:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T23:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/?p=683"},"modified":"2016-02-24T13:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T13:58:41","slug":"mechanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/2016\/02\/20\/mechanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another observation for the <a href=\"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/tag\/life-on-the-move\/\">life on the move<\/a> series<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Shade tree mechanic<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0I learned awhile ago that I\u00a0don&#8217;t really like tinkering on things. \u00a0Especially vehicles. \u00a0I know how to do all my own work on my bike but it&#8217;s not my favorite past time. \u00a0I&#8217;ve never done any of my own work on vehicles because (a) I have no interest and (b) I&#8217;ve never really needed anything major done on my cars despite the fact that \u00a0I&#8217;ve always bought used (even salvaged) or gotten them as hand me downs&#8230;they&#8217;ve always been relatively trouble free. \u00a0But I now know way more about my truck than I really ever cared to. \u00a0I can change a headlight bulb (its not as trivial on this truck as you might think). \u00a0I understand the exotic exhaust system, the unique &#8220;regen&#8221; process and the bad downpipe joint that causes smoke. \u00a0I know where the HVAC blower motor and the &#8220;resistor&#8221; is and how to wack the motor to get it to run. \u00a0And now I know where the fuel filter and WIF (water in fuel) sensor is&#8230;and I think I may be able to change it myself next time. \u00a0Oh, I also know where the odd numbered glow plugs are and the AC condensation outlet are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another observation for the life on the move series Shade tree mechanic. \u00a0I learned awhile ago that I\u00a0don&#8217;t really like tinkering on things. \u00a0Especially vehicles. \u00a0I know how to do all my own work on my bike but it&#8217;s not my favorite past time. \u00a0I&#8217;ve never done any of my own work on vehicles because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewachs.com\/wachsacrossamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}