{"id":70,"date":"2017-02-10T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/?p=70"},"modified":"2018-01-03T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T20:34:07","slug":"oilite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Oilite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_73\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oilite\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73\" src=\"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/untitled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/untitled.png 224w, http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/untitled-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-73\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hard bronze shell, gooey motor oil center!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes old timey technology is just really satisfying.\u00a0 And impressive!\u00a0 If I heard on Gizmodo or whatever that someone had invented a self-oiling bushing material by crushing powered metal into a porous substance that then vacuum-impregnating it will oil so that it stayed lubricated even as it wore out, I would say, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/a9\/39\/0f\/a9390fad36278a8d4db969c6871d26aa.jpg\">THE FUTURE IS NOW!<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 Sometimes, I guess, the future is 1930.\u00a0 When you refuse to let go of the little &#8217;70s rotor tiller because it was your mom&#8217;s, even though it needs parts that don&#8217;t exist any more and wasn&#8217;t meant to be taken apart in the first place, this is where you end up.\u00a0 At the Gopher Bearing city desk, next to other retired grandpas holding oily rags containing greasy parts of junk that anyone else would have thrown in the dump.\u00a0 And learning what a city desk is (it&#8217;s just an obsolete phrase for a customer service counter, that&#8217;s apparently only used in certain regions of the heartland.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t even look that up in Wikipedia!).<\/p>\n<p>Read about it on Wikipedia: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oilite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #002bb8;\">Oilite<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes old timey technology is just really satisfying.\u00a0 And impressive!\u00a0 If I heard on Gizmodo or whatever that someone had invented a self-oiling bushing material by crushing powered metal into a porous substance that then vacuum-impregnating it will oil so that it stayed lubricated even as it wore out, I would say, &#8220;THE FUTURE IS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wikiblog.ericsanford.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}