{"id":846,"date":"2006-09-22T12:42:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T18:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2006\/09\/22\/windshield-wipers\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T12:44:14","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T18:44:14","slug":"windshield-wipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2006\/09\/22\/windshield-wipers\/","title":{"rendered":"Windshield Wipers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the parts of my car that I feel comfortable installing, windshield wipers give me the most joy.<\/p>\n

Actually I would say I have a love\/hate relationship with my windshield wipers. They’re never as good as the first day you get them. A slow, downward trajectory, like riding a slip’n’slide that isn’t wet enough.<\/p>\n

However, I have great hope for my recent wiper purchase. Instead of going for the seemingly generic brand they sell at Checker Auto Parts, I spent an extra $10 each for the Bosch Icon<\/a> wipers. I am in wiper heaven.<\/p>\n

They could\u00c2\u00a0 be described as a slightly al dente spaghetti noodle. That, in and of itself is cool, because there is none of the typical metal bracket features. Just a sleek rubber and plastic noodle.<\/p>\n

Minnesota winters are tough though, so I’m withholding final judgment until the snow flies. But so far, my new windshield noodle friends are living up to their billing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all the parts of my car that I feel comfortable installing, windshield wipers give me the most joy. Actually I would say I have a love\/hate relationship with my windshield wipers. They’re never as good as the first day you get them. A slow, downward trajectory, like riding a slip’n’slide that isn’t wet enough. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-dE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}