{"id":515,"date":"2006-06-14T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=515"},"modified":"2006-06-14T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T12:30:09","slug":"o-ye-wonders-of-duct-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/14\/o-ye-wonders-of-duct-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"O, ye wonders of duct tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060613\/OUTDOORS0201\/606130367\/1038\">From an article praising that miracle silver stuff: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s the weird thing about duct tape &#8212; it might fix things too well.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe tape is often tougher than what is being patched together, and I&#8217;ve seen that happen with tents, ski gloves and truck radiator hoses.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nA friend of mine &#8212; who will remain nameless &#8212; once wrapped a big wad of duct tape around a split in his radiator hose.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe original idea was to get the truck back from an eastern Oregon lake to civilization &#8212; and an auto parts store.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nI followed this guy for 60-odd miles &#8212; all the way to his house &#8212; to make sure he got home.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nI saw him on the river a couple of weeks later.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;How long did it take you to fix that hose?&#8221; I asked.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;Ahh, that duct tape is still holding,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That reminds me, I still have to wrap some on my hiking poles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article praising that miracle silver stuff: That&#8217;s the weird thing about duct tape &#8212; it might fix things too well. The tape is often tougher than what is being patched together, and I&#8217;ve seen that happen with tents,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/14\/o-ye-wonders-of-duct-tape\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}