{"id":16,"date":"2011-12-09T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogengine\/blog3\/post\/Dad-1-Nephew-0"},"modified":"2011-12-09T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T19:08:00","slug":"dad-1-nephew-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/dad-1-nephew-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad: 1, Nephew: 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Dad passed away last week. Therefore, he will probably show up more than usual in my posts here. That&#8217;s just how it goes.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dad apparently did not believe in jumper cables. When grandson\/nephew #2 showed up at the door this evening with a flat battery in his van, I was sure I could find a set of cables in the garage. No such luck.<\/p>\n<p>I do remember from years back in the past, that he had some kind of home-built gizmo that plugged into the wall and would charge up car batteries, whether the car was still attached or not.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this gizmo no longer exists &#8211; and the van was down the road a ways anyhow, so this solution probably wouldn&#8217;t have worked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to his decaying, home-built arc welder that I decommissioned last week, I actually had all the parts needed to construct a nice set of jumper cables on hand. It would only have taken 30 minutes or so &#8211; less if prevention of catching fire wasn&#8217;t a concern &#8211; but before I could put this plan into action, he&#8217;d called the AA.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m scoring this one point to Dad; no points to his grandson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Dad passed away last week. Therefore, he will probably show up more than usual in my posts here. That&#8217;s just how it goes.) Dad apparently did not believe in jumper cables. When grandson\/nephew #2 showed up at the door this evening with a flat battery in his van, I was sure I could find a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}