{"id":834,"date":"2020-12-09T21:47:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T03:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=834"},"modified":"2020-12-09T21:47:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T03:47:56","slug":"what-adults-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/09\/what-adults-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Adults Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-835 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-26-at-2.33.28-PM-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-26-at-2.33.28-PM-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-26-at-2.33.28-PM-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-26-at-2.33.28-PM-1024x679.png 1024w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-26-at-2.33.28-PM-1320x876.png 1320w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-26-at-2.33.28-PM.png 1444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Our society is getting too soft, and it&#8217;s evidenced by how we are willing&#8230; or not&#8230; to do certain tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Call me &#8220;old school&#8221; if you want, but there are things every adult&#8230; especially men&#8230; should know how to do whether they want to know or not.\u00a0 One of them is changing a tire.\u00a0 If you are 18 years of age, and you own and\/or drive a vehicle, you should know how to change a tire and you should have done it at least once.<\/p>\n<p>Spare me that you have AAA or some other roadside service.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t be so soft.\u00a0 Are you an independent adult, or not?<\/p>\n<p>Now, once you know how, I don&#8217;t care if you use a roadside service, that&#8217;s fine.\u00a0 But if in a position where said service is not available you won&#8217;t be stranded and helpless.<\/p>\n<p>I also believe that everyone, including women, should be routinely checking their own oil and water.\u00a0 It&#8217;s your vehicle, be responsible for it.\u00a0 Again, if you come to me and say your oil is low, ok, I&#8217;ll go fill it, but you need to be responsible and aware of your own vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our society is getting too soft, and it&#8217;s evidenced by how we are willing&#8230; or not&#8230; to do certain tasks. Call me &#8220;old school&#8221; if you want, but there are things every adult&#8230; especially men&#8230; should know how to do whether they want to know or not.\u00a0 One of them is changing a tire.\u00a0 If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving","category-pet-peeve","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}