{"id":578,"date":"2009-08-12T20:23:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T20:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2014-05-20T20:24:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T20:24:46","slug":"159345","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/159345\/","title":{"rendered":"159345"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>well, i finally broke down and bought a new muffler today. what was wrong with the old one? well&#8230;i) most of it was rusted; ii) parts both internal and external had flaked off (meaning that it was not as good as a sound damper and was likely to break off again); iii) it was dented in a couple places (backing into the rock a couple days ago probably didn&#8217;t help); and iv) one of the brackets holding the muffler to the car was coming loose. the new one cost $40, and was actually made by the mechanic&#8230;he has a stock of about 30 different mufflers of all shapes and sizes that he&#8217;s made. we&#8217;ll see how long before my exhaust breaks again.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-578 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/159345\/laserena_muffler1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/laserena_muffler1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/159345\/laserena_muffler2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/laserena_muffler2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>well, i finally broke down and bought a new muffler today. what was wrong with the old one? well&#8230;i) most of it was rusted; ii) parts both internal and external had flaked off (meaning that it was not as good as a sound damper and was likely to break off again); iii) it was dented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chile"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}