{"id":620,"date":"2020-09-10T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T05:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=620"},"modified":"2020-09-10T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T05:37:08","slug":"everything-is-figureoutable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/10\/everything-is-figureoutable\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything is figureoutable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our garbage disposal stopped working recently and my first reaction was that I might have to call someone to repair or replace it. I know nothing about garbage disposals, after all. But after a YouTube video and just looking at the thing, I learned enough about garbage disposal to take it apart and fix it myself. It was mostly just unscrewing things. And removing a small metal spoon. No big deal. It reminded me of a bumper sticker I saw once and really liked:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EVERYTHING IS FIGUREOUTABLE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/c-z47VKDGJyVqGW94MUm35oFQBPMd1X95R8ca0tTcX6P0wGf3O3RkZOX-SIK_uix3czVRM9IfFs3iyu2zp2nWAqNvh19fJ9KXjtFJlwAbhNGLhK_FiorqVRmfh1mt81kIGsjx0fW\" width=\"313\" height=\"140\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your first instinct might be to ask for help. But let your second thought be to begin to figure it out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our garbage disposal stopped working recently and my first reaction was that I might have to call someone to repair or replace it. I know nothing about garbage disposals, after all. But after a YouTube video and just looking at the thing, I learned enough about garbage disposal to take it apart and fix it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/10\/everything-is-figureoutable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Everything is figureoutable&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}