{"id":1746,"date":"2026-07-23T21:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:02:28","slug":"thursday-july-23rd-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, July 23rd, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The car went back to the shop today, the same air conditioning that failed once before and was returned to me under a two-year warranty, only to quit again almost at once. This time the verdict was a bad resistor, replaced with Subaru parts; the dial that had given me nothing between Off and full blast now moves through its settings as it should. Whether it holds is another matter, and I have learned not to trust a repair until a season has tested it. Rather than call for a ride home, I made a day of it, working through bugs at the coffee shop while the mechanics worked through mine, and closed the afternoon with two beers well earned. A day handed over to waiting, spent instead on something like contentment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car went back to the shop today, the same air conditioning that failed once before and was returned to me under a two-year warranty, only to quit again almost at once. This time the verdict was a bad resistor, replaced with Subaru parts; the dial that had given me nothing between Off and full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}