{"id":353,"date":"2012-06-01T00:48:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T04:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2012-06-01T00:48:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T04:48:30","slug":"first-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/01\/first-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"First Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120530-093436.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-354\" title=\"20120530-093436\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120530-093436-478x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120530-093436-478x640.jpg 478w, http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120530-093436-764x1024.jpg 764w, http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120530-093436.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a> This week, I had my first flat tire on the road since <em>high school.<\/em> After some investigating, it wasn&#8217;t actually the tire, but the valve stem, which had cracked and broken its seal from old age.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly I was without spare tire or duct tape, but I managed to get back on the road thanks to my tire patch kit: I put some tire patches behind the stem to keep it from bending back into the position where it leaked, and doused it all with rubber cement. I avoided highways back home and swapped to my summer tires. Who need roadside assistance?<\/p>\n<p>These were my trusty old 15&#8243; Nokian Hakkapeliitta&#8217;s that have been on my MINI every winter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2005\/10\/27\/bring-on-the-snow\/\" target=\"_blank\">since 2005<\/a>! Long past their usefulness as a snow tire (and not needed much over this mild winter), I was running them into the ground anyway, and avoiding installing my bent and wobbly summer wheels.<\/p>\n<p>In a few months I&#8217;m going to need to address the situation. Do I spend the money to get my original X-lites straightened (A set of white OZ&#8217;s would be cheaper)? Do I go with all-seasons instead of buying two sets? Run-flats? (No way!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I had my first flat tire on the road since high school. After some investigating, it wasn&#8217;t actually the tire, but the valve stem, which had cracked and broken its seal from old age. Sadly I was without spare tire or duct tape, but I managed to get back on the road thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-mini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}