{"id":1068,"date":"2012-09-01T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2012-09-07T06:23:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T14:23:48","slug":"mirrored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2012\/09\/01\/mirrored\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirrored."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a little time this afternoon to drill some holes and tap for screws, and the result is a side mirror that I can actually use:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/7909294296\/\" title=\"Backside of mirror by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8178\/7909294296_a64cc181c1.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Backside of mirror\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about freakin time. The whole setup is really set up for a more upright window pillar, so the final angle I wound up with pointed the mirror outboard and upwards. I wrapped the end in a rag and bent it with a pair of channel locks, and wound up with something useable. While I was at the hardware store I added one of those little rounded puck mirrors for blind spots. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/7909300648\/\" title=\"Untitled by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8300\/7909300648_95d1c38565.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> Here&#8217;s a shot from the driver&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/7949532942\/\" title=\"IMG_5708 by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8308\/7949532942_b25002c7a1.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_5708\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a little time this afternoon to drill some holes and tap for screws, and the result is a side mirror that I can actually use: It&#8217;s about freakin time. The whole setup is really set up for a more upright window pillar, so the final angle I wound up with pointed the mirror [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress","category-repairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s58Ac2-mirrored","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}