{"id":573,"date":"2007-02-15T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=573"},"modified":"2007-02-15T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T19:47:00","slug":"getting-kia-van-on-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/02\/15\/getting-kia-van-on-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a Kia van on a truck"},"content":{"rendered":"

While driving a short-term mission team from Regina to Antigua for their last 2 nights in the country, my van, the Kia, brokedown. We managed to get the team to where we needed to go and left the van at a highway road stop.<\/p>\n

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Two days later on our way back, we had a ‘tow truck’ from Tactic meet us so we could get it brought back to Tactic for repairs. The event required putting the van on the back of the truck.<\/p>\n

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I sat in the cab drinking Seven, steering the van and occasionally braking while they unhooked and rehooked the chains…<\/p>\n

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…while this guy did all the work. When the chain runs out, I brake, they manually unwind the chain, hook it up again and start the pulling again. They had to hook it up 3 times because the chain isn’t that long.<\/p>\n

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45 minutes of winching and voil\u00e1!<\/p>\n

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Fido Dido lives! Is he in Canada anymore? I don’t think he’s learned to talk yet though.<\/p>\n

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This is Laura, a resident of Tierra Blanca (White Dirt<\/i>) and one of the gathered spectators for the show.<\/p>\n

*Photos 1 & 2 taken by Ruth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While driving a short-term mission team from Regina to Antigua for their last 2 nights in the country, my van, the Kia, brokedown. We managed to get the team to where we needed to go and left the van at a highway road stop. Two days later on our way back, we had a ‘tow … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-573","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-guatemala","9":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}