{"id":10207,"date":"2017-03-20T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=10207"},"modified":"2017-03-20T00:57:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T07:57:02","slug":"wherein-i-thought-i-was-going-to-be-posting-about-a-new-microphone-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/20\/wherein-i-thought-i-was-going-to-be-posting-about-a-new-microphone-today\/","title":{"rendered":"wherein i thought i was going to be posting about a new microphone today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was going to be posting about a new microphone I built today! I was pretty sure I could get the kit construction finished and even make a couple of recordings.<\/p>\n<p>And I could&#8217;ve, but no, I had to have one of these moments:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UcaWQZlPXgQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;wherein on page 24 of the assembly instructions it talks about connection sealing material and special kinds of thread-locking fluid which aren&#8217;t strictly necessary but are definitely good to use, if, you know, you just happen to have them around, and if you don&#8217;t, well, you can add them later but EVERYTHING WILL EXPLODE.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly the connection sealing material. Apparently.<\/p>\n<p>None of this was in the components and tools list up front. Of course. So thanks, now I get to order all that stuff, which I already have, and it&#8217;ll get here Wednesday. (No, it&#8217;s not at the local hardware. I did check!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is how far I got, and where it&#8217;ll be until Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2017-03\/microphone-how-far-i-got-sunday.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was going to be posting about a new microphone I built today! I was pretty sure I could get the kit construction finished and even make a couple of recordings. And I could&#8217;ve, but no, I had to have one of these moments: &#8230;wherein on page 24 of the assembly instructions it [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-recording-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10210,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207\/revisions\/10210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}