{"id":560,"date":"2010-07-18T11:28:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T19:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2010\/07\/18\/high-technology\/"},"modified":"2010-07-18T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T19:32:44","slug":"high-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2010\/07\/18\/high-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"High Technology."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/4805919412\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4094\/4805919412_4fbfdf5c24.jpg?w=1170\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other day, while waiting at a stoplight, I happened to notice the small headphone jack on the faceplate of the RoadGear (Wal-Mart) brand radio in the Scout. Intrigued, I filed this away for future investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, I pulled a 4&#8243;x6&#8243; speaker from a spare dash and plugged it in to one of the lamp cord speaker wires coiled on the floor and tested the radio out. Success! I was pulling in stations, which means A. the antenna is connected, and B. there&#8217;s power to the unit. It even turns off when the key is out, which means it&#8217;s connected to the accessory circuit correctly. Next, I plugged my spare iPod into the jack and held my breath. Success! The headphone jack auto-switches to the accessory (something the fancy-shmancy Kenwood in the Jeep can&#8217;t do). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/4805299701\/\" title=\"Charging by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4096\/4805299701_df699aaa63.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Charging\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, thinking I was pushing my luck, I tried plugging the iPod charger into the cigarette lighter to see if it still carried power. Success!<\/p>\n<p>I can hardly believe it. Now, to find a cheap pair of 6&#215;9 speakers to cover up the big jagged holes in the rear walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, while waiting at a stoplight, I happened to notice the small headphone jack on the faceplate of the RoadGear (Wal-Mart) brand radio in the Scout. Intrigued, I filed this away for future investigation. This afternoon, I pulled a 4&#8243;x6&#8243; speaker from a spare dash and plugged it in to one of 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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress","category-repairs"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-92","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}