{"id":5155,"date":"2012-06-05T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2012-06-05T05:00:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T10:00:31","slug":"the-edge-of-wetness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5155","title":{"rendered":"The Edge of Wetness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image5154\" alt=valve.jpg src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/valve.jpg\" height=300><\/p>\n<p>This little valve, yesterday, was the bane of my existence, for a brief time. <\/p>\n<p>The plastic broke, spraying two gallons of coolant all over the engine compartment. I managed to get it to a gas station where I replaced the whole assembly with a piece of pipe I had in the toolbox, and a couple of hose clamps, which I also had. A woman stopped and watched me wrenching, whistling and giggling to myself. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re in a pretty good mood for someone broken down in a gas station&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll have this fixed in a minute, I can walk in that door over there and buy new coolant, and I&#8217;ll still be home in time for the new episode of Top gear&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have a low threshold of fun&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;if I could get a blowjob right now, honey, I could levitate&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tact has never been one of my fine points, but at least she laughed as she walked away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little valve, yesterday, was the bane of my existence, for a brief time. The plastic broke, spraying two gallons of coolant all over the engine compartment. I managed to get it to a gas station where I replaced the whole assembly with a piece of pipe I had in the toolbox, and a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}