{"id":1589,"date":"2015-11-02T06:57:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2015-11-02T06:57:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:57:23","slug":"winter-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2015\/11\/02\/winter-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"5\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/9kA6h-tKz-\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sadly, it&#8217;s hardtop season. #scout #IH #fall #nomoreconvertible #winteriscoming<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When the leaves fall and the first real frost of the season hits, I start thinking about putting the hardtop on. There&#8217;s nothing more frustrating than installing (or removing) a hardtop when it&#8217;s 30\u00c2\u00b0 outside; banging knuckles on cold metal is a bummer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got the process down to a science now, and yesterday it took me about an hour to remove the soft top, fold it up, drop the hardtop down onto the rails, align the gaskets (don&#8217;t forget the windshield gasket!), drive it out of the garage, and get the bolts in place. I finger-tighten the four windshield bolts first, and then start with the two siderail bolts directly behind the doors, working my way backwards. It&#8217;s always much easier to push\/pull the top in the middle to align the holes than it is at the ends. What would have been finished in an hour took an extra 15 minutes because I had to open the tailgate up to re-align the hatch mechanism\u00e2\u20ac\u201csomething I&#8217;ve also got down to a science, as it happens at least twice a year.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s been running really well this year, and apart from some basic carb adjustments, I don&#8217;t have any complaints at all. I backed her into the garage, set up the trickle charger, and let her sleep until next week with her winter coat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, it&#8217;s hardtop season. #scout #IH #fall #nomoreconvertible #winteriscoming When the leaves fall and the first real frost of the season hits, I start thinking about putting the hardtop on. There&#8217;s nothing more frustrating than installing (or removing) a hardtop when it&#8217;s 30\u00c2\u00b0 outside; banging knuckles on cold metal is a bummer. I&#8217;ve got the [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-pD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","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=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}