{"id":1741,"date":"2017-07-27T20:36:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T04:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2017-07-28T03:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T11:49:52","slug":"rest-in-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2017\/07\/27\/rest-in-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest In Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out via text that Brian had a catastrophic fire which leveled his garage today, enveloping part of the house. Brian and his family are OK, but Chewbacca, which was sitting in the bay of the garage, is likely destroyed. The pictures he texted me show a pile of charred timbers sitting on the shell. I can&#8217;t believe it. It&#8217;s a shit end for a reliable, faithful truck that I was <em>sure<\/em> would outlast Peer Pressure.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1743\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20423921_1759142320766935_986141579057966869_o.jpg?resize=1024%2C575\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20423921_1759142320766935_986141579057966869_o.jpg?resize=1024%2C575&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20423921_1759142320766935_986141579057966869_o.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20423921_1759142320766935_986141579057966869_o.jpg?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20423921_1759142320766935_986141579057966869_o.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Image pulled from the Chestertown Volunteer FD Facebook page<\/p>\n<p>For anyone following along, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/about\/\">Chewbacca was my first Scout<\/a>, and I secretly sold it to Brian&#8217;s wife as a Christmas present for him. He spent a year restoring the whole thing, using a Kentrol tub and new parts wherever possible, and the result was a work of art. Some might say it was a different truck entirely, quoting\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ship_of_Theseus\">Theseus&#8217; Paradox<\/a>, but I always knew her beating heart was the same.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_2825\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/5926137707\/in\/album-72157612462974114\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6132\/5926137707_b225c0ac4a_b.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"DSC_2825\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out via text that Brian had a catastrophic fire which leveled his garage today, enveloping part of the house. Brian and his family are OK, but Chewbacca, which was sitting in the bay of the garage, is likely destroyed. The pictures he texted me show a pile of charred timbers sitting on [&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":true,"_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":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-s5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","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=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}