{"id":717,"date":"2010-06-11T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/theres-a-noise\/"},"modified":"2010-06-11T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:18:00","slug":"theres-a-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/theres-a-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a noise under the hood of my car.  Or at least there was one yesterday at lunch time and again in the evening.  A horrible grinding screeching noise.   On the way to drop off my car at the dealership last evening, the noise seemed to stop.  But since I&#8217;d already made an appointment of sorts (they are booked today, but they&#8217;ll take a look at my car as soon as possible) &#8211; I went ahead and left the car and the key.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It didn&#8217;t help matters that I was already cranky from the day at work.  And I&#8217;m nearly always cranky when something goes wrong with my car.  I&#8217;m a computer guy, not a car guy.   I&#8217;m perfectly at ease in taking a computer apart &#8211; but only when backed up by information on the screen, or lack there off. With a car, though, it&#8217;s all meaningless warning lights and undefinable noises.    Then getting a straight answer out of mechanics I&#8217;ve gone to is nearly impossible.    And if you ask questions, well, then you&#8217;re an idiot that doesn&#8217;t know anything about cars.  Which, duh, is why I bring the car in to start.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, my co-worker was able to drive me in and my room-mate should be able to pick me up after work.  I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s something simple and definitive &#8211; and not too expensive.    Too much to ask for, I know.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My room-mate thinks I should buy his car when his lease is up &#8211; but, seriously, the headrests in that automobile are horrible.  Seems like a silly reason to dismiss car, but I&#8217;ve ridden in there for long distances and after about 25 minutes I&#8217;m ready to cut my own head off to get some relief.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Makes me want to track down the engineer that designed those headrests and force him to sit in the car leaning back until he realizes what he&#8217;s done and apologizes.    There&#8217;s where the recalls should be focused.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, I&#8217;m not going to buy that car, but I may end up getting a Honda as my next car anyway.  With a test drive focused on the head-rests.   <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>See?  I told you I wasn&#8217;t a car guy.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6913097901389264887-7815779731843502016?l=thunderofwade.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a noise under the hood of my car. Or at least there was one yesterday at lunch time and again in the evening. A horrible grinding screeching noise. On the way to drop off my car at the dealership last evening, the noise seemed to stop. But since I&#8217;d already made an appointment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}