{"id":149,"date":"2007-12-10T22:10:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2007-12-10T22:10:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T12:10:03","slug":"sometimes-its-the-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes it&#8217;s the little things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning still drunk from a night of bike riding and binge-drinking through the streets of Melbourne. Twenty minutes before we&#8217;re due to hit the airport I decide it&#8217;s probably about time to pull the bike apart and pack it for the flight over. Good plan, until I round out the pissweak seat post binder bolt, which I happen to need to loosen to remove my seat and get my bike back home. The next half hour was spent swearing at inanimate objects and searching through BnC Mike&#8217;s tool box for things to get the damn thing off. In the end brute strength won the day and we ripped the post right out. Lucky I&#8217;m such a ripped dude and not a scrawny 60kg wimp. Once we returned to home soil a quick trip up the road sourced materials and things got serious. One hacksaw, a hammer, a screwdriver and an allen key later, all was fixed with minimal tears and no damage.<\/p>\n<p>Little fucker&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/binder-bolt.jpg\" title=\"binder-bolt.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/binder-bolt.jpg\" alt=\"binder-bolt.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning still drunk from a night of bike riding and binge-drinking through the streets of Melbourne. Twenty minutes before we&#8217;re due to hit the airport I decide it&#8217;s probably about time to pull the bike apart and pack it for the flight over. Good plan, until I round out the pissweak &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sometimes it&#8217;s the little things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}