{"id":1041,"date":"2014-03-24T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2022-09-03T20:31:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T01:31:19","slug":"things-are-getting-serious-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/things-are-getting-serious-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Things are getting serious now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the first time the car&#8217;s been this far back together since I&#8217;ve owned it. The body guy is still lining a few things up, and then it should be ready for more primer and some base color after masking everything off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/primer1.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/primer1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/primer1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/primer1.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The body guy worked a small miracle getting the quarters squared away. Can&#8217;t wait to see this thing with some actual color on it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/primer2.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/primer2.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/primer2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/primer2.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The big bummer is that the urethane bumper isn&#8217;t taking the primer (not even the flex stuff Mike sold me). It&#8217;s soaking it up and cracking like a big dog&#8230; so I&#8217;m just going to order a chrome bumper for the front &#8211; it should look pretty awesome with the pewter color.<br><br>Which begs the question: why can&#8217;t a paint and body guy make the primer stick to something that&#8217;s supposed to be painted?  Should I be concerned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time the car&#8217;s been this far back together since I&#8217;ve owned it. The body guy is still lining a few things up, and then it should be ready for more primer and some base color after masking everything off. The body guy worked a small miracle getting the quarters squared away. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-mach1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}