{"id":1180,"date":"2013-04-14T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T02:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2013-04-14T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T02:28:16","slug":"topless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2013\/04\/14\/topless\/","title":{"rendered":"Topless."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s definitely a version 1.0 and there&#8217;s a lot to be desired in the execution, but I got the top off today by myself without having to call in any help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/8650798518\/\" title=\"Untitled by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8121\/8650798518_815b5b5da3.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right now it hangs in the back of the available parking area of the garage , which means I can&#8217;t back the Scout in with the soft top up. I think the next iteration might involve a winch and a stronger bracing system for the top itself, and some way of scooting it backwards before it gets hoisted up. Maybe I can make some simple sawhorses and walk it backwards onto those before it goes upwards. I&#8217;m definitely going to add a third set of ratchet straps to the current setup to sleep soundly at night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/8649698077\/\" title=\"Untitled by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8390\/8649698077_8f81ea488c.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The soft top hardware is tacked in place, but I&#8217;m headed out to the store tomorrow to buy stainless hardware to mount the rails before I put the canvas on. I was tempted to put my snap top on (and I still might) but time got away from me today and I still had to clean up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s definitely a version 1.0 and there&#8217;s a lot to be desired in the execution, but I got the top off today by myself without having to call in any help. Right now it hangs in the back of the available parking area of the garage , which means I can&#8217;t back the Scout in [&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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s58Ac2-topless","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","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=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}