{"id":4618,"date":"2010-07-09T23:12:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T04:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2010-07-09T23:12:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T04:12:50","slug":"mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4619\" href=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/09\/mechanics\/mechanics\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4619\" title=\"Mechanics\" src=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/mechanics.jpg?w=429\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When it comes to auto repair <\/strong><strong>I wish I was more mechanically gifted.<\/strong> I&#8217;m not completely worthless though. I mean, I understand the basics about how a car runs and the major parts that make the wheels go &#8217;round. Heck, I even change my own oil, but for some reason when I take a vehicle in for servicing I&#8217;m completely at their mercy. Their goal obviously is to baffle me by bringing up terminology that I&#8217;m not familiar with. It&#8217;s like they go to the parts index of my car&#8217;s parts manual and find something wrong with the piece that the lay person would never be able to get at without pulling their engine completely out. Even when I feign some knowledge about the cost of items needing replacement they can always trump me with the infamous &#8216;labor&#8217; line item. Seems like they <em>always<\/em> blame it on labor: &#8220;yeah, it&#8217;s not like the parts are real expensive, but it&#8217;s the labor.&#8221; I swear, either these mechanics are made of gold or my vehicle is so mechanically complex that accessing areas of the engine quickly is out of the question. I guess it&#8217;s dolts like me whose car problems guarantee that the owner of the garage can afford to drive a nicer vehicle than I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to auto repair I wish I was more mechanically gifted. I&#8217;m not completely worthless though. I mean, I understand the basics about how a car runs and the major parts that make the wheels go &#8217;round. Heck, I even change my own oil, but for some reason when I take a vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-1cu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}