{"id":394,"date":"2012-08-22T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2012-08-22T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T13:04:06","slug":"i-think-i-swore-less-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/22\/i-think-i-swore-less-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"I think I swore less this time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washer machine. Broken. Enough said. Well perhaps not\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We have a front loading washing machine. It has what\u2019s called a bellow \u2013 a large rubber gasket between the door and the drum. It\u2019s torn once and we had it replaced out of warranty. Well, it happened again. So, this time I thought I\u2019d do it.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered it online on Sunday. It arrived Tuesday. I installed it last night. I used these instructions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixya.com\/support\/r3574186-installing_a_door_bellow_on_a_front_load\">http:\/\/www.fixya.com\/support\/r3574186-installing_a_door_bellow_on_a_front_load<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All went pretty smoothly. However, we own a front loader because they\u2019re stacked in a small closet under the stairs. But, I got to the last part of installing the spring loaded clip on the outside of the bellow. The instructions actually admit this part is difficult and even state that it\u2019s ok if you just don\u2019t put it back on. Wow. Those are fightin\u2019 works to a man! I\u2019d be up all night trying to put that thing back on now!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it only took about a half hour and a few choice words to get it done. Let\u2019s hope it doesn\u2019t tear again anytime soon. By the way, we took a trip to Sears last weekend and every model of every brand that\u2019s a front loader uses this bellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washer machine. Broken. Enough said. Well perhaps not\u2026 We have a front loading washing machine. It has what\u2019s called a bellow \u2013 a large rubber gasket between the door and the drum. It\u2019s torn once and we had it replaced out of warranty. Well, it happened again. So, this time &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gH3K-6m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}