{"id":9022,"date":"2007-10-07T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/07\/rusty-tailpipe\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:10","slug":"rusty-tailpipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/07\/rusty-tailpipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rusty Tailpipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_9537-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_9537-scaled.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is what happens when someone puts a cheap chromed tailpipe cover on a car: it gets rusty and ugly and difficult to remove.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle&#8217;s car had one of these tailpipe covers on it, and knowing for a few weeks that she would really prefer it to be gone, I removed it. The two screws holding it in place were quite tough to remove, but I was still able to get them out with a screwdriver and a bit of elbow grease. I&#8217;m really surprised they hadn&#8217;t seized.<\/p>\n<p>At least that&#8217;s sorted out. Now to sort out dinner&#8230; Thai food, maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when someone puts a cheap chromed tailpipe cover on a car: it gets rusty and ugly and difficult to remove. Danielle&#8217;s car had one of these tailpipe covers on it, and knowing for a few weeks that she would really prefer it to be gone, I removed it. The two screws\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022","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=9022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24642,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022\/revisions\/24642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}