{"id":225,"date":"2011-09-10T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/sponge-bob-fender-trauma\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T02:15:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:15:10","slug":"sponge-bob-fender-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/trikes\/sponge-bob-fender-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponge Bob Fender Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I was leaving work one day this week, I noticed at the right fender on Sponge Bob, which has always been pretty iffy, had come loose again, loose enough to rattle while the engine was warming up. I mentally added securing it, again, to my todo list.<\/p>\n

I headed on home. The rattle was noticeable, but I didn’t pay much attention to it until I suddenly heard the fairly specific sound of metal on tire, a clunk, then no more rattling, just as I was traversing a railroad crossing.<\/p>\n

I looked down and saw basically this:<\/p>\n

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Of course, I was moving at the time…<\/p>\n

I turned around in a parking lot to got back and retrieve the fender.<\/p>\n

It’s a big yellow fender, you’d think it would be easy to see. While I was turning around, a commuter train came through. Even though it took me a little bit to get turned around, I wouldn’t have thought anyone would have time to have stopped and pick it up, even stopping for the train. I couldn’t find it anywhere.<\/p>\n

Then, during one of the turns I made, I saw something out of the corner of my eye.<\/p>\n

The fender was still attached by one bolt, but had swung around forward and I just couldn’t see it with my helmet on!<\/p>\n

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I laughed heartily and just held it up by me for the rest of the drive home, which was only about a mile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I was leaving work one day this week, I noticed at the right fender on Sponge Bob, which has always been pretty iffy, had come loose again, loose enough to rattle while the engine was warming up. I mentally added securing it, again, to my todo list. I headed on home. The rattle was … Continue reading Sponge Bob Fender Trauma<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}