{"id":14792,"date":"2018-12-06T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=14792"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:35:17","slug":"mechanical-geniuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=14792","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical Geniuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have yet to hear from a couple of asphalt companies.\u00a0 We did get one estimate of $500, which might as well be $5 million.<\/p><p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned, our street can stay unplowed this winter.<\/p><p>Yesterday, I mowed the back yard lawn at Edgewater.\u00a0 The back yard has a few bumps and low spots.\u00a0 Spring fix.<\/p><p>Nice email from Carolee and by strange synchronicity, I got an email from the Onset neighborhood association about a party being hosted by &#8220;Carolee and Rebecca&#8221;!<\/p><p>I went to the dentist for teeth cleaning this morning and to the senior center for wreath-making this afternoon.\u00a0 Dropped in briefly to Ron&#8217;s class.<\/p><p>The shop vac was making strange noises, the kind that happens when the bearings need to be cleaned and oiled.<\/p><p>We took it apart and like idiots turned on the motor after removing it from its housing.<\/p><p>It skidded, gouged the table, sparked, and fell, catching itself in my slacks and one of my socks.\u00a0 Fortunately, it tripped a fuse before it could damage my leg.<\/p><p>Groupon had a nice deal for holiday cards from Staples, so we picked out a design we liked and ordered 50.\u00a0 I bought stamps for cards that are going to Canada and a gift certificate for Peter&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have yet to hear from a couple of asphalt companies.\u00a0 We did get one estimate of $500, which might as well be $5 million.As far as I&#8217;m concerned, our street can stay unplowed this winter.Yesterday, I mowed the back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=14792\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14793,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14792\/revisions\/14793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}