{"id":5666,"date":"2014-01-04T18:15:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T23:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2014-01-04T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T23:15:03","slug":"i-need-a-new-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5666","title":{"rendered":"I need a new battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what my car told me this morning:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B1sdXCvlWwE\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Yes, it needed a new battery. It just wouldn&#8217;t start.<\/p>\n<p>The irony is that my car is a hybrid. Which means that when you turn the key, it usually just comes to life, like any decent electric motor would. And behind the back seat, there is a 144 V NiMH battery with enough juice to light up my house. But when the outside temperature is low, the engine computer decides on its own that the engine should be cranked like a low-tech gasoline engine&#8230; from the 12 V battery, using an ordinary starter motor. And when that happens in the dead of a Canadian winter, with a battery that was last replaced about six years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness for Canadian Tire.<\/p>\n<p>The video, by the way, is a scene from <em>Return to Zork<\/em>, the first multimedia sequel to the classic <em>Zork<\/em> series of text adventure games from the early 1980s. The graphics may be a tad dated, but the game is still quite good and entertaining&#8230; and plays well in DOSBox.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5666' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what my car told me this morning: Yes, it needed a new battery. It just wouldn&#8217;t start. The irony is that my car is a hybrid. Which means that when you turn the key, it usually just comes to life, like any decent electric motor would. And behind the back seat, there is <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5666' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-transportation","category-35-id","category-24-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5666"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5672,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions\/5672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}