{"id":1136,"date":"2013-01-09T17:10:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T01:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2013-01-09T17:10:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T01:10:31","slug":"bumper-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2013\/01\/09\/bumper-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumper Update."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped on the way home from work (the weatherguessers lied and claimed it would be in the low 60&#8217;s) and pulled my spare tire off. It&#8217;s changed the handling characteristics of the truck to the point where hitting expansion joints or non-parallel bumps in the road sends the whole truck into a sketchy front-to-back oscillation that I don&#8217;t like. I can see the tire vibrating back there and feel it in the handling; for a truck on springs this stiff, it&#8217;s not a good feeling. I&#8217;ve also noticed a lot more body creaking with the tire mounted out back, and the passenger door is getting harder to close securely. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to drive it a few more times with the tire off and we&#8217;ll see how it feels.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped on the way home from work (the weatherguessers lied and claimed it would be in the low 60&#8217;s) and pulled my spare tire off. It&#8217;s changed the handling characteristics of the truck to the point where hitting expansion joints or non-parallel bumps in the road sends the whole truck into a sketchy front-to-back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-ik","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","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=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}