{"id":324,"date":"2007-11-22T02:20:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T01:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.com\/skodarallyblog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2009-07-30T18:36:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T17:36:27","slug":"shakedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shakedown&#8221;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most drivers get to do a rally shakedown on a stage, checking settings and adjustments and tyres, etc.<\/p>\n<p>As with last year, my preparations haven&#8217;t quite worked out like that, so my &#8220;shakedown&#8221; has been driving the car to work a couple of times this week, a 60-mile round trip.  And in that time, it&#8217;s been mostly OK.  A couple of rattles here and there, things that I know to fix, but mostly pleasant and going OK.  This is good, &#8216;cos it means I&#8217;ve actually slept two nights running.  Here&#8217;s to a third&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, there&#8217;s been some interest from the local paper&#8217;s motoring writer, and he asked for some pictures.  Bournemouth has been the wettest place in the country since Sunday (handy, that), so the only place to take any kind of a picture at 10 at night is the underground garage at Paul&#8217;s place, and they wanted photos, so I&#8217;ve put one up here for everyone who&#8217;s been nagging!  &#8216;Real&#8217; photos should follow at the weekend, once the car is (a) finished and (b) stickered up a bit!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Me, Burley and R477 KRU, freshly built\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/wp-content\/gallery\/oldblog\/20071122-me-burley-and-r477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most drivers get to do a rally shakedown on a stage, checking settings and adjustments and tyres, etc. As with last year, my preparations haven&#8217;t quite worked out like that, so my &#8220;shakedown&#8221; has been driving the car to work a couple of times this week, a 60-mile round trip. And in that time, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}