{"id":2268,"date":"2019-12-16T08:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T16:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2019-12-16T08:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T16:56:44","slug":"energized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2019\/12\/16\/energized\/","title":{"rendered":"Energized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSCF7356\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/49228250278\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49228250278_9e5fa17cfa_b.jpg?resize=1000%2C667&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"DSCF7356\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I took the Scout out on errands Sunday before the first snow of the year. The weather was in the 50&#8217;s so it was good to get outside in the sunshine. I used the last of my starting fluid to wake her up so I thought I&#8217;d stop off at the auto parts store to pick up some more. When I came back out and cranked her over, the battery decided it was too tired to go on. I guess after 11 years I can&#8217;t complain too much; it was a bargain battery anyway.<\/p>\n<p>$150 later, I put a new one in place of the old, hooked the terminals up, and she roared to life with vigor. While I was out, I got three thumbs-ups, a honk and a wave, and two guys telling me they love the Scout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the Scout out on errands Sunday before the first snow of the year. The weather was in the 50&#8217;s so it was good to get outside in the sunshine. I used the last of my starting fluid to wake her up so I thought I&#8217;d stop off at the auto parts store to [&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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purchasing"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-AA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","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=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}