{"id":61,"date":"2007-12-12T23:05:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T07:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/vroomsqueak\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T22:55:09","slug":"vroomsqueak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/vroomsqueak\/","title":{"rendered":"Vroom&#8230;squeak!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cars can be so exasperating.\u00a0 We think our brakes need replacing pretty soon here and are trying to decide when and how to make it happen.\u00a0 Jim and his friend Justin were looking them over this evening and it looks like they&#8217;ve got another couple of months on them.\u00a0 With Justin&#8217;s help, Jim is thinking of replacing the brakes as a DIY project (it would save us hundreds of dollars &#8211; literally) &#8230;but just contemplating such a task made us both even more aware of how little we know about cars.<\/p>\n<p>Justin has done home repairs before and worked on cars a lot with his dad when he was younger, but he doesn&#8217;t feel like an expert, either.\u00a0 He said it seems like those who know tons about cars remind him of a club &#8211; if you&#8217;re not &#8220;in the know&#8221; early on, it&#8217;s really hard to be initiated later in life.\u00a0 Where does a car-dumb grown-up with no mechanical savvy or spare car to take apart find herself some effective tools for figuring out how cars work, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>The end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cars can be so exasperating.\u00a0 We think our brakes need replacing pretty soon here and are trying to decide when and how to make it happen.\u00a0 Jim and his friend Justin were looking them over this evening and it looks like they&#8217;ve got another couple of months on them.\u00a0 With Justin&#8217;s help, Jim is thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14],"tags":[74,24,99],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}