{"id":7514,"date":"2012-05-21T15:05:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T22:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2012-05-21T15:05:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T22:05:22","slug":"so-far-so-good-the-pumps-doing-fine-the-old-one-probably-can-be-fixed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/so-far-so-good-the-pumps-doing-fine-the-old-one-probably-can-be-fixed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"So far so good&#8230;the pump&#039;s doing fine, the old one probably can be fixed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kittehs have their annual shots, and tags, and are none the worse for wear&#8212;we had a little set-to with Shu, who is perhaps just a wee bit spoiled and believes he runs the household&#8230;but he has his shots now.<\/p>\n<p>The faithful Forester, 120,000 miles, is in the shop being serviced: we thought we were going to have to do the timing chain this round, but turns out we got that at 90,000 miles, so now it&#8217;s all the belts and fluids: it&#8217;s running really well, and we just want to be sure while the car is old, the oldness does not extend to its wear-out-able parts. The engine runs great. This is going to be spendy, but it beats paying for a whole car, or fixing it AFTER things have gone wrong. Seems the tires are going to be ok for a bit, but I&#8217;m going to talk with them about it&#8212;tires are cheaper than fenders if they&#8217;re getting iffy about skids. I tend to spring for 100,000 mile\u00a0 all-weathers that really will affect handling: an extra margin of safety and agility if some ditz ahead of me decides he&#8217;s missed his exit at 70 mph or if a badly-loaded table leaves a truck and bounces my way (had both happen.) And we have serious snow and ice up here. Sooooooo we&#8217;ll think about the tires.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kittehs have their annual shots, and tags, and are none the worse for wear&#8212;we had a little set-to with Shu, who is perhaps just a wee bit spoiled and believes he runs the household&#8230;but he has his shots now. The faithful Forester, 120,000 miles, is in the shop being serviced: we thought we were [&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-7514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514","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=7514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}