{"id":2343,"date":"2018-10-02T22:57:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T22:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2018-10-02T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T23:00:16","slug":"new-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2343","title":{"rendered":"New springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess after almost 12 years it&#8217;s no surprise the springs on my rv needed replacement.  One set had flattened out a bit, changing the geometry of the suspension.  Somehow I found a spring specialist and the work was done today.  On Thursday, I take it in for an alignment, and who knows what they will find.  Then, I&#8217;ve got to replace the tire damaged along the way.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s in front of me is the climb up to Vail, on what is probably the worst maintained interstate in the country (except maybe Louisiana?). I will be extremely anxious every time I hit a pothole, expansion joint, and the tire ruts. <\/p>\n<p>The spring specialist suggested new hangers to improve the design, but I&#8217;ll pass on that.  This little adventure is already costing me too much.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rainy in Grand Junction, snow is possible this weekend at the summit.  I&#8217;m hoping I can get up and over without encountering that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess after almost 12 years it&#8217;s no surprise the springs on my rv needed replacement. One set had flattened out a bit, changing the geometry of the suspension. Somehow I found a spring specialist and the work was done today. On Thursday, I take it in for an alignment, and who knows what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}