{"id":18,"date":"2005-04-21T21:44:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T04:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/wordpress\/?p=18"},"modified":"2005-10-09T23:52:05","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T06:52:05","slug":"trouble-with-round-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/trouble-with-round-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble With Round Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past several months my car and skates have curiously deteriorated simultaneously. The car costs astronomically more, but I care more about the skates. It started with a ripped out lacing strap, then a crack in the frame, then the rivets holding the frame to the boot fractured and fell out. On top of that I&#8217;ve been rotating depolymerized wheels prone to disintegration. I&#8217;m risking it all every time I hit the streets. Finally I sent one pair of beat up skates back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salomonsports.com\">Salomon<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salomoninline.com\/us\/products.asp?id=783483\">replacement is on the way<\/a> (thank you very much).<br \/>\nHowever, I am not so lucky with my car. Yes, it&#8217;s a Volkswagen, so it&#8217;s embarrassingly expensive to fix. It broke down last week in Hope, NJ on my way back from JerZ. Thankfully I got the car off I-80, but it still sucked having to deal with the morons at AAA. So I&#8217;ve had no car all week (could be a good thing!). The VW dealership is waiting on a part that&#8217;s coming from Mars.<br \/>\nAs the manager of McCarthy Tire so eloquently put it (after I got two tires replaced there last week), &#8220;You&#8217;re having trouble with round things.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou have no idea . . . <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justinline.com\/blog\/graphics\/skate_defects.jpg\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"skate defects\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past several months my car and skates have curiously deteriorated simultaneously. The car costs astronomically more, but I care more about the skates. It started with a ripped out lacing strap, then a crack in the frame, then the rivets holding the frame to the boot fractured and fell out. On top of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/trouble-with-round-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trouble With Round Things<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}