{"id":19163,"date":"2019-11-09T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=19163"},"modified":"2019-11-09T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T15:43:03","slug":"it-was-the-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=19163","title":{"rendered":"It was the switch&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;have been having some problems with the car barely starting after having it set for a couple of days even with the battery switch turned off and the only thing I could think of was that the switch had gone bad and had started to not shut the battery off completely&#8230;so, I went out to HF Thursday and bought a new one since they are so cheap&#8230;only about 6 bucks or so and replacing it would be the easiest way to figure out what the problem was&#8230;at first, I thought it was the new battery I put in a couple of months ago but having it fail that soon just didn&#8217;t make sense&#8230;so, this morning, after having the car sit in the garage since Thursday without running it, I gave it a try and the thing spun over fast like it&#8217;s supposed to so it appears that it was the switch and that is a relief&#8230;didn&#8217;t want to spend any more money on it since I am edging toward buying another Miata in the spring since this one needs a lot of work and I should be able to find one for 4 grand or so&#8230;.this takes a load off my mind and almost prepares me for winter&#8230;I do need to put the winter tires on for one last winter&#8230;but now I have a garage to do it in&#8230;and a cordless driver to take the lug nuts off after I loosen them&#8230;I love having a garage&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;have been having some problems with the car barely starting after having it set for a couple of days even with the battery switch turned off and the only thing I could think of was that the switch had gone bad and had started to not shut the battery off completely&#8230;so, I went out to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=19163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It was the switch&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-19163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19164,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163\/revisions\/19164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}