{"id":782,"date":"2011-02-26T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/26\/tires-and-tired\/"},"modified":"2011-02-26T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T21:31:00","slug":"tires-and-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/26\/tires-and-tired\/","title":{"rendered":"tires and tired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I had an incident with the snowy roads and the sharp turn into my driveway.  I ended up missing the drive and sliding into the ditch.  With a bit of luck, I managed to straddle the edges of the ditch and contrived to get myself down the hill to a smoother spot and got my car out and back onto the road.  Ironically, that was the day where I had earlier complained about bad drivers in the wintertime in Ohio on Facebook.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was pleased with myself that I had gotten out without a tow-truck &#8211; but there were consequences.  I had somehow messed up the alignment and now had to pull the wheel to the right in order to go straight ahead.   <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I drove like that for a while, but realized that the terrible Ohio potholes weren&#8217;t going to knock things back in place.  Also, I needed two new front tires as they were going bald. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, the day before the latest huge snowstorm, I headed up to National Tire and Brake.  I told the guy that I needed two new tires and to have my alignment&#8230; re-aligned.  He asked what kind of tires and I told him that I didn&#8217;t need anything fancy &#8211; just round, made of rubber, less bald than my current ones.  Taking it in stride, he asked if I wanted those in black or yellow.  I smiled and said black would match my car.   He gave me an estimate that seemed reasonable and said it would be about an hour.  I walked over to Best Buy and got the new Adele CD &#8211; then over to Burger King for a snack.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Back at NTB, I sat in the waiting room while they finished up the alignment.  The guy at the desk called me over in a bit and explained what they did and other services they could offer.  I politely declined and paid the very reasonable bill.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I actually had a little trouble driving home on the highway &#8211; it seemed that I&#8217;d  gotten used to the mis-alignment and it took me a bit to get used to the new steering  &#8211; and the new tires. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My car is riding fine now and I&#8217;m pleased with the results.  It&#8217;s got 113,000 miles on it, but I&#8217;m glad I can hang onto it a bit longer.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6913097901389264887-326708786782540234?l=thunderofwade.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I had an incident with the snowy roads and the sharp turn into my driveway. I ended up missing the drive and sliding into the ditch. With a bit of luck, I managed to straddle the edges of the ditch and contrived to get myself down the hill to a smoother spot [&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-782","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\/782","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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}