{"id":682,"date":"2011-03-28T07:12:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=682"},"modified":"2011-03-28T10:25:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T18:25:30","slug":"small-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2011\/03\/28\/small-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered a set of vacuum plugs from Amazon on Friday to cap off the unused ports on my poly gas tank. I think I&#8217;m going to try wrapping the ports in something like aluminum foil first in order to keep gas fumes from melting the plastic (it seems like there&#8217;s no good alternative to plastic or rubber that I can find) and then put the caps over top of them, then zip-tie or use a small hose clamp to fasten them completely. I also ordered a pinstripe removal wheel for my dashboard veneer; it came this afternoon via UPS. So I know what I&#8217;m going to be playing with this evening.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Finn and I did a quick recon trip to Arbutus on Sunday to look for a truck Mr. Scout showed me several years ago: a topless yellow Scout that looked like it hadn&#8217;t moved in a couple of years. When I finally remembered how to get where it was, we found that it had been replaced by a shiny, mildly lifted Wrangler. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered a set of vacuum plugs from Amazon on Friday to cap off the unused ports on my poly gas tank. I think I&#8217;m going to try wrapping the ports in something like aluminum foil first in order to keep gas fumes from melting the plastic (it seems like there&#8217;s no good alternative 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-b0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}