{"id":494,"date":"2011-09-06T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomjottings.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=494"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:08:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:08:18","slug":"tyred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Tyred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At work today I noticed an advert on the Internet for some Double Fighter tyres, so when I got home I went on line to order them. Not in the local Halfords store and I didn&#8217;t fancy waiting so I opted to pick them up from Oldham.<\/p>\n<p>Weather was terrible, traffic (thanks to all the work on the Metrolink extension) was even worse.<\/p>\n<p>Got there only to be told that they didn&#8217;t have any in stock!!!<\/p>\n<p>Cue irate customer mode.<\/p>\n<p>Pimply sales assistant turned pale and scurried off to find someone to hide behind. So I ended up being offered a different set of tyres (Travel Contact) at half price (bringing the cost down to the same as the ones I was looking at) and two free inner tubes. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Got them home to find they&#8217;re also kevlar lined, so hopefully even less chance of punctures \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=pchomestart-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=B0025U2NX0\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=randomjottings-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=B0035LEP3Y\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work today I noticed an advert on the Internet for some Double Fighter tyres, so when I got home I went on line to order them. Not in the local Halfords store and I didn&#8217;t fancy waiting so I opted to pick them up from Oldham. Weather was terrible, traffic (thanks to all the [&hellip;]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}