{"id":6405,"date":"2015-06-21T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T20:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2015-06-21T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T20:22:30","slug":"ace-hardware-not-what-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/ace-hardware-not-what-it-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Ace Hardware&#8212;not what it used to be."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swear, everything we get from Ace breaks.<br \/>\nThe plumbing parts? Bought a PVC to hose connector?<br \/>\nBroke right off when attaching a hose.<\/p>\n<p>Tool handles break. What kind of industry machines a sound, metal blade, and attaches it to a handle that&#8217;s going to bend and break off.<\/p>\n<p>Pump clip-on&#8217;s break&#8230;a bicycle pump should be sturdy enough to have a clip attach to a tire and detach without falling off in your hand the first time you use it. Fluke? Nay. We had two. I didn&#8217;t learn the first time.<\/p>\n<p>I just do not get the economy of stuff that has good heavy, proper parts and then some &#8216;save-a-half-penny&#8217; connector that&#8217;s a wonder it held up to get put on at the factory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear, everything we get from Ace breaks. The plumbing parts? Bought a PVC to hose connector? Broke right off when attaching a hose. Tool handles break. What kind of industry machines a sound, metal blade, and attaches it to a handle that&#8217;s going to bend and break off. Pump clip-on&#8217;s break&#8230;a bicycle pump should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6406,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions\/6406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}