{"id":788,"date":"2011-02-11T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=788"},"modified":"2013-06-18T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T02:05:34","slug":"on-turning-bolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/on-turning-bolts\/","title":{"rendered":"On Turning Bolts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKokJNjhrxzKAggULcow1oVP3pLg6uTvbcQlxNLxpttqKHWSuh\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/>I miss the feel<br \/>\nof turning bolts<br \/>\ntorquing them down<br \/>\ninto metal blocks<br \/>\nuntil they seat<br \/>\nand just a little more.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You learn to listen<br \/>\nwith your hands<br \/>\nyour whole arm<br \/>\nas the bolt stretches<br \/>\npulling everything together<br \/>\nwith the force of many<br \/>\ninclined planes.<\/p>\n<p>As the bolt goes home<br \/>\nThere is a point<br \/>\njust short of shear<br \/>\nwhere the torque rises up<br \/>\nand you know to stop.<\/p>\n<p>It is a thing you feel<br \/>\nand only learn<br \/>\nby going too far<br \/>\nand paying the price<br \/>\nin drilled out bolts<br \/>\nacetylene torches<br \/>\nand cursed hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss the feel of turning bolts torquing them down into metal blocks until they seat and just a little more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}