{"id":273,"date":"2015-12-24T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2015-12-24T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T11:00:33","slug":"abusing-screwdrivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/24\/abusing-screwdrivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Abusing Screwdrivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probably one of the most abused tools is the screwdriver. It gets used for all kinds of prying, scraping, and stabbing that it&#8217;s not designed for.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-278\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_12_21_01.jpg\" alt=\"2015_12_21_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Because I like to <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/2015\/09\/21\/using-tools-right\/\" target=\"_blank\">use tools right<\/a>, I bought some really cheap screwdrivers from Walmart for 65 cents each. When I lost one it didn&#8217;t matter because it was so cheap, and after that I bought two so I&#8217;d have a backup the next time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-279\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2015_12_21_02.jpg\" alt=\"2015_12_21_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cheap tools will show why they&#8217;re cheap eventually, and one of my cheap screwdrivers snapped in half when a lot of force was put on it to pry something. Again, no problem, just grab the next one in my toolbox.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas everybody!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably one of the most abused tools is the screwdriver. It gets used for all kinds of prying, scraping, and stabbing that it&#8217;s not designed for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}