{"id":41176,"date":"2019-03-23T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T18:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=41176"},"modified":"2019-03-22T17:14:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T00:14:52","slug":"just-for-fun-how-to-fix-a-dented-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/23\/just-for-fun-how-to-fix-a-dented-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Just for fun: How to fix a dented car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple of weeks ago a friend backed into my car. She and I both lucked out. Once the black marks, surface scrapes, and dirt were cleaned off, we each had a nearly identical dent about four inches across, but both in tricky spots.<\/p>\n<p>She has a handy husband to fix hers. She offered to pay for fixing mine, but I told her it was too small a thing to bother her with. <\/p>\n<p>I got a suction-cup puller, which didn&#8217;t work (see &#8220;tricky spot&#8221; above). So I turned to the Great Source of All Wisdom and Distractions to get other ideas.<\/p>\n<p>I still have the dent and haven&#8217;t yet tried the hair dryer method, the glue-puller method, the sink-plunger method or anything else the Internet offered. But I did find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iEDJFjAD6kY\" target=\"_blank\">this super-helpful video<\/a>, which I thought you&#8217;d find entertaining and instructive:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/iEDJFjAD6kY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>P.S. I am not going to use this technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple of weeks ago a friend backed into my car. She and I both lucked out. Once the black marks, surface scrapes, and dirt were cleaned off, we each had a nearly identical dent about four inches across, but both in tricky spots. She has a handy husband to fix hers. She offered to pay for fixing mine, but I told her it was too small a thing to bother her with. I got a suction-cup puller, which didn&#8217;t work (see &#8220;tricky spot&#8221; above). So I turned to the Great Source of All Wisdom and Distractions to get other ideas.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/23\/just-for-fun-how-to-fix-a-dented-car\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just for fun: How to fix a dented car<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41180,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41176\/revisions\/41180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}