{"id":762,"date":"2011-12-11T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=762"},"modified":"2022-10-05T15:13:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:13:57","slug":"love-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/love-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Love bug&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I&#8217;m trying to catch up on all my little chores. Winterize the dirtbike, throw out all the extra boxes that have been piling up, and &#8220;do something&#8221; with my RC toys. I put 2 of them up on Ebay, and started installing parts on another that had been waiting for them for months. A new VW Beetle body and body mounts&#8230; a couple cans of paint, and voila!:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center>            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 341px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/1_buggy_1_800.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/1_buggy_1_800.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/thumbs\/thumbs_1_buggy_1_800.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"1849\"\n             data-title=\"1_buggy_1_800\"\n             data-description=\"\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_0210b101751cb7e59a0d02d2a619c841\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/cache\/1_buggy_1_800.jpg-nggid041849-ngg0dyn-0x256x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"1_buggy_1_800\"\n             title=\"1_buggy_1_800\"\n              width=\"341\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The body was dropped until it just covered the chassis when viewing it from the side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center>            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 341px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/1_buggy_2_800.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/1_buggy_2_800.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/thumbs\/thumbs_1_buggy_2_800.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"1850\"\n             data-title=\"1_buggy_2_800\"\n             data-description=\"\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_12af527fe6a33dae1f7e9b0a66e25a29\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/radio-control\/cache\/1_buggy_2_800.jpg-nggid041850-ngg0dyn-0x256x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"1_buggy_2_800\"\n             title=\"1_buggy_2_800\"\n              width=\"341\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same truck underneath as before&#8230; but now I have a nice body for it that doesn&#8217;t have a helmetcam hole sawed into the windshield. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I&#8217;m trying to catch up on all my little chores. Winterize the dirtbike, throw out all the extra boxes that have been piling up, and &#8220;do something&#8221; with my RC toys. I put 2 of them up on <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/love-bug\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Love bug&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-ci","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}