{"id":542,"date":"2010-12-19T19:10:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2010-12-19T19:10:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:10:16","slug":"good-intentions-and-a-good-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/19\/good-intentions-and-a-good-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Good intentions and a good birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a great deal of pondering and plotting, I decided to start my restoration early. So much so that I actually went and changed my restoration countdown on the right hand side to show December 17th as the day for starting. The plan was simple, I would get the thing started and running for a fun day of driving on my day off, go running through the desert, driving around town, and generally just having fun. Then, Saturday would be a day of draining fluids and starting to pull off some of the easy accessories into Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>That would have been all well and good, except the weather turned for the worst and I&#8217;ve been unable to go out and do what&#8217;s necessary to even get a drive around the block done. Aside from the rain and wind, which make driving a little open air vehicle like this less than optimal, it&#8217;d also be a real bummer to get sick on my birthday. So, I&#8217;ve decided to give it one more chance, I&#8217;ll try and get it up and running on my next day off on the 22nd, and if that either doesn&#8217;t work out I&#8217;ll just start tearing it down then. Otherwise, I&#8217;ll start after a few hours of playing in the Jeep, before I get down to business.<\/p>\n<p>The good new is, I have some new parts thanks to birthday presents. I got a brand new front bumper, rear crossmember, fuel line system, and some nice original hose clamps for the air crossover tube. The bumper and crossmember are just the thing for when I finally get down to the frame and start the reconstruction portion of the project. I for one, can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a great deal of pondering and plotting, I decided to start my restoration early. So much so that I actually went and changed my restoration countdown on the right hand side to show December 17th as the day for starting. The plan was simple, I would get the thing started and running for a fun day of driving on my day off, go running through the desert, driving around town, and generally just having fun. Then, Saturday would be a day of draining fluids and starting to pull off some of the easy accessories into Sunday. That would have&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/19\/good-intentions-and-a-good-birthday\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good intentions and a good birthday<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5,7,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cj-3a","category-jeep","category-new-parts","category-restoration","category-willys","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pE9Qq-8K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}