{"id":249,"date":"2002-06-14T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-14T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2002-06-14T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-14T12:59:00","slug":"249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The waking this morning was another long, protracted reflex action.  Unlike the little ones that occur when your doctor taps your knee with the mallet during a checkup, this one lasted a good fifteen minutes or so, and culminated with me getting into my car and driving off, at which point I woke up enough to be able to work the clutch and shifter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>Spent all of last evening putting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardomain.com\/member_pages\/view_page.pl?page_id=215052&#038;page=4\">brazed and ported turbo exhaust elbow<\/a> on the car at Don&#8217;s house up in Jacksonville.  It was a lot of fun to hang out with someone who sees cars from the same vantage point as I do, and just a generally great guy.  It took us three hours, and I was gloriously dirty and greasy and sweaty from literally head to foot, but we got it on the car.  Undoing fourteen-year-old bolts from a slightly rusty exhaust system with a cobbled-together set of extensions and u-joint attachments for a socket driver is great fun.  At least the car didn&#8217;t fall on me&#8230;  That would have sucked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The waking this morning was another long, protracted reflex action. Unlike the little ones that occur when your doctor taps your knee with the mallet during a checkup, this one lasted a good fifteen minutes or so, and culminated with me getting into my car and driving off, at which point I woke up enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}