{"id":216,"date":"2008-05-20T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T19:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2008-05-20T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T19:35:16","slug":"thats-all-there-is-there-aint-no-mower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/thats-all-there-is-there-aint-no-mower\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s all there is, there ain&#8217;t no mower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It all started<\/strong> when I was hemming and hawing about whether I should try to fix the drive on my beloved&#8217;s lawn mower.<\/p>\n<p>In a wave of self-disgust, I wondered whatever happened to that kid who swapped in a 4-barrel manifold and hopped up the carb on his Duster.  The one who tracked down a bad power transistor in his stereo and fixed it.  The one who knew exactly where to &#8220;thwack&#8221; an older computer to get it to come alive again.<\/p>\n<p>That was all it took.<\/p>\n<p>When the lawn mower turned out to be two bolts and a dislodged belt and about two and a half minutes&#8217; work, I decided that I still wanted&#8211; that it was still <strong>necessary<\/strong>&#8212; to get my hands dirty once in a while.  Maybe even scrape my knuckles.  Just to keep my hand in. <\/p>\n<p>Next day I limped my car&#8211; it <em>almost<\/em> didn&#8217;t start&#8211; up to the local auto parts store, selected, verified, and installed a new battery, right there in the parking lot.  Rocket science?  Heck no, but I&#8217;d still been considering paying someone to do it for me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to know how to do stuff&#8211; but it&#8217;s even better to *know* that you know.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started when I was hemming and hawing about whether I should try to fix the drive on my beloved&#8217;s lawn mower. In a wave of self-disgust, I wondered whatever happened to that kid who swapped in a 4-barrel manifold and hopped up the carb on his Duster. The one who tracked down a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}