{"id":3605,"date":"2017-11-06T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3605"},"modified":"2017-11-06T06:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T11:00:25","slug":"learn-from-your-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/06\/learn-from-your-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn From Your Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had a rough day that reminded me that it&#8217;s okay when you make mistakes, you just have to learn from them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3610\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017_11_06_01.jpg\" alt=\"2017_11_06_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I was replacing an ignition switch and didn&#8217;t think to leave the harness unplugged until I got the switch installed, and consequently blew the 50 amp ignition fuse when the bare positive wire connection touched the steering column. That ended up adding a while to the job as I waited for a new fuse to arrive. Later that day I realized you don&#8217;t have to take out the entire rear interior of a Civic to replace the 3rd brake light assembly, when I was halfway done taking out the entire interior. Now I know what not to do, and that&#8217;s all that really matters.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had a rough day that reminded me that it&#8217;s okay when you make mistakes, you just have to learn from them.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605","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=3605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}