{"id":6247,"date":"2015-08-28T23:12:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T23:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.wordpress.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2015-08-28T23:12:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T23:12:59","slug":"a-little-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/28\/a-little-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_08_28_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_08_28_01.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Hannah Kathleen Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hello everybody, my name is Dan. I&#8217;m a mechanic.<\/p>\n<p>I graduated in April 2015 from Toyota&#8217;s T-TEN program at my local community college, and since May 2014 I&#8217;ve been working at a Toyota dealership. I started out in the express maintenance group, and when I finished school I was moved up to a nomad position, moving to whatever bay was open and filling in for people that were on vacation, or taking whatever extra work I could get. In August 2015 a vacancy opened up on a team and I got to move into a bay permanently, and after a while move to flat rate pay.<\/p>\n<p>This is where I&#8217;m at now.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_08_28_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015_08_28_02.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My bay, my box.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey is where you&#8217;ll find posts and pictures from me about interesting things that I encounter while working on cars. I will be posting here at least once a week, on Thursdays, with possibility for more posts as interesting or unusual things happen at work. Be sure to subscribe if you don&#8217;t want to miss anything!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everybody, my name is Dan. I&#8217;m a mechanic. I graduated in April 2015 from Toyota&#8217;s T-TEN program at my local community college, and since May 2014 I&#8217;ve been working at a Toyota dealership. I started out in the express maintenance group, and when I finished school I was moved up to a nomad position, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,62],"class_list":["post-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-college","tag-toolbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247","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=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}