{"id":17710,"date":"2013-12-30T11:51:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T16:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17710"},"modified":"2013-12-30T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:06:11","slug":"2014-huron-clinton-metroparks-oakland-county-parks-passes-are-poor-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/30\/2014-huron-clinton-metroparks-oakland-county-parks-passes-are-poor-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Huron-Clinton Metroparks \/ Oakland County Parks Passes are Poor Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/IMG_7804.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The 2014 Huron-Clinton join Metroparks \/ Oakland County Parks sticker is a new style, with tear marks at the top, split backing, and alcohol soluble paint on the back.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/105489-2\/IMG_7804.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroparks.com\/\">Huron-Clinton Metroparks<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destinationoakland.com\/\">Oakland County Parks<\/a> pass is much lower quality than the ones from past years. Starting this year the sticker has a few changes which make it much harder to apply: the backing is split instead of starting at a tab at the top, and the white background fill is alcohol soluble.\u00a0Because of the split backing I had a much harder time applying it and ended up with a slightly wrinkled sticker, and cleaning the window post-application wiped off some of the white paint and left it smeared all over the window. With the tear-off top of the decal being perforated along the top of the decal itself this also means that the top edge is rough and can&#8217;t be evenly smoothed.<\/p>\n<p>I much prefer the older style decal, as I could easily get it applied smoothly in the lower corner of my car window (<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/P1171213.jpg.html\">photo<\/a>) and passing over the sticker while cleaning the windshield didn&#8217;t wipe white paint all over the lower reaches of the glass.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> When I attempted to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroparks.com\/Contact-Us\">Contact Us page on metroparks.com<\/a>\u00a0to relay this concern to park management it returned an ASP error that I believe was trying to give me an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Protocols\/rfc2616\/rfc2616-sec10.html\">HTTP 500 (Internal Server Error)<\/a>\u00a0so I tried using the listed <a href=\"mailto:info@metroparks.com\">info@metroparks.com<\/a> email address, which then bounced saying recipient not found. That&#8217;s worse quality than the passes. Time to dig up some real people&#8217;s addresses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The 2014 Huron-Clinton Metroparks \/ Oakland County Parks pass is much lower quality than the ones from past years. Starting this year the sticker&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/30\/2014-huron-clinton-metroparks-oakland-county-parks-passes-are-poor-quality\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2014 Huron-Clinton Metroparks \/ Oakland County Parks Passes are Poor Quality<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-automotive","category-outdoors","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17713,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710\/revisions\/17713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}