{"id":242,"date":"2007-12-16T22:12:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T06:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2007-12-16T22:12:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T06:12:59","slug":"start-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Start Me Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flying airplanes is a constant learning experience.  Today I learned how to jump start a Piper Archer.<\/p>\n<p>Brenda and I are getting ready to fly out to see our respective families for the holidays, so I&#8217;m trying to log a little extra time in preparation.  I&#8217;m looking to make sure that I&#8217;m reasonably current on my skills and that the plane&#8217;s also ready to go.  Today I stopped off at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/Flying\/flabob06\/\">Flabob<\/a> field for lunch, and almost didn&#8217;t get back out.<\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago, I had a battery go completely dead causing me to miss an afternoon of instruction.  After that, I had some starting problems that my mechanic couldn&#8217;t repeat.  And today I had more of the same, to the point where I ran my battery completely down.  A helpful fellow who was nearby offered to jump, and after I realized that I did indeed have a 12 volt battery, we gave it a shot.  It worked like a charm, and away we went.  It was an interesting thing to learn how to do, and I&#8217;m happy to know it.<\/p>\n<p>But I think I need a new battery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying airplanes is a constant learning experience. Today I learned how to jump start a Piper Archer. Brenda and I are getting ready to fly out to see our respective families for the holidays, so I&#8217;m trying to log a little extra time in preparation. I&#8217;m looking to make sure that I&#8217;m reasonably current on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-blogbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}