{"id":136,"date":"2005-03-21T10:27:43","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T15:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/?p=136"},"modified":"2005-03-21T10:29:56","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T15:29:56","slug":"dont-look-back-in-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/03\/21\/dont-look-back-in-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t look back in anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Saturn. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/IMG_0458.jpg\" alt=\"Broken Mirror\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday Lindz and I went out for dinner, a little mini-putt (for the record, she won) and then watched a movie at her parent&#8217;s place. The car must have been parked for just over two hours. When I parked it I let Lindsay out at her driveway so that I could pull the car forwards and up on to the snowbank &#8212; apparently that wasn&#8217;t over far enough. <\/p>\n<p>So we cleaned up the mirror&#8217;s remnants from the road so no one would get a flat. There was a noticeable absence of another mirror, but very good distance on my shards, making me think the hit came from a light truck.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/IMG_0470.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately<a href=\"http:\/\/www.standardautowreckers.com\/SAW\/centered.htm\">Standard Auto Wreckers<\/a> junkyard is closed Sundays during the winter. (Standard is a great place, good selection and they have a good record of environmental concerns and community involvement &#8211; they also have my first car.) So I taped over the hole left from removing the mirror&#8217;s assembly and foam and rigged up a new mirror with a replacement convex mirror I bought. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/IMG_0469.jpg\" alt=\"Mirror\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Migivered mirror worked pretty well for the drive back to St. Catharines, and I swear I got better fuel economy. I hope to make it to a yard down here in St. Catharines this week. The good news is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carpartsdeal.com\/S3600CPD\/Car\/SL2\/Mirror\/\">the part<\/a> doesn&#8217;t appear to be too expensive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Saturn. \ud83d\ude41 Saturday Lindz and I went out for dinner, a little mini-putt (for the record, she won) and then watched a movie at her parent&#8217;s place. The car must have been parked for just over two hours. When I parked it I let Lindsay out at her driveway so that I could pull&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/03\/21\/dont-look-back-in-anger\/\">Continue Reading<span> Don&#8217;t look back in anger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}