{"id":7078,"date":"2014-06-11T06:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T10:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allandouglas.dougbittinger.com\/blog\/?p=7078"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:39","slug":"jerked-zerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/jerked-zerk\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerked by a Zerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I spent three hours doing the spring maintenance on my riding mower: oil change, grease job, cleaning out the debris, checking filters, tires, etc.\u00a0 All went well until I got to greasing the front wheel bearings.<\/p>\n<p>I took the dust cover off of the first hub: no grease <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/zerk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">zerk<\/a>.\u00a0 That\u2019s odd.\u00a0 The manual did say not to oil or grease anything that uses a new UHMW plastic bushing.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t SEE plastic bushings, but without dismantling the front wheels I wouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 Still, no grease port: can\u2019t grease it.\u00a0 Move on.\u00a0 Read more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I spent three hours doing the spring maintenance on my riding mower: oil change, grease job, cleaning out the debris, checking filters, tires, etc.&nbsp; All went well until I got to greasing the front wheel bearings. I took the dust cover off of the first hub: no grease zerk.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s odd.&nbsp; The manual did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/jerked-zerk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jerked by a Zerk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-7078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21096,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078\/revisions\/21096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}