{"id":3323,"date":"2011-12-28T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2011-12-28T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T23:04:00","slug":"wednesday-night-d-i-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/12\/28\/wednesday-night-d-i-y\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night &#8211; D.I.Y."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another great day working with my hands. The big project today was installing a new\u00a0 stereo in Gabe&#8217;s car.. it had a circa 1998 cassette deck.,,and none of the music gab listens to was even imagined in final decades of the cassette era. When I got the stereo the guy at the store told me that they would happily install it for only $150&#8230;\u00a0 What !?!?!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the guy told me that installing them was only for experts. One should only attempt such a thing if you were extremely handy.. That almost scared me off.. the fact that the guy doubted my mechanical abilities was enough to convince <em>me<\/em> that I have no mechanical ability&#8230; Hmmmm<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.. Gabe and I decided to go for it ourselves.. it wasn&#8217;t a matter of money.. it was a matter of pride..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/dec2611b\/10591200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/dec2611b\/1cc6c14d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/dec2611b\/b9986a44.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/dec2611b\/4f9e3660.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>less\u00a0 than an hour later it was in and working.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/083108\/dec2611b\/cb65e71a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so&#8230;i guess the message for the day was supposed to be &#8216;beleive in yourself&#8217;.. or &#8216;just go for it&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>but actually the message I came away with is &#8216;there are always many more screw than necessary in the world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>something to think about !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great day working with my hands. The big project today was installing a new\u00a0 stereo in Gabe&#8217;s car.. it had a circa 1998 cassette deck.,,and none of the music gab listens to was even imagined in final decades of the cassette era. When I got the stereo the guy at the store told me &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/12\/28\/wednesday-night-d-i-y\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night &#8211; D.I.Y.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[361],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-d-i-y"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}