{"id":1606,"date":"2011-10-01T02:58:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T06:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2011-09-27T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T19:08:10","slug":"sense-of-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/01\/sense-of-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense of scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vice.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vice\" width=\"111\" height=\"154\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1607\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of the time, I buy what I intend to. Like the old maxim from construction: &#8220;Measure twice, cut once&#8221;, I always take care to ensure I&#8217;m ordering the right thing. At least when things are expensive. When they&#8217;re cheap, I&#8217;m less careful. Check out the photo above. I thought, &#8220;Sure, that&#8217;s the bench vice I&#8217;m looking for.&#8221; It was so inexpensive, that I went ahead and ordered it without much thought.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how big that vice looks to you, but I was surprised when it arrived. Click through to get the sense of scale&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vice2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Actual vice that arrived. It&#039;ll come in handy when I hire Smurfs to build my rigs.\" width=\"550\" height=\"411\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1608\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vice2.jpg 550w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/vice2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>The vast majority of the time, I buy what I intend to. Like the old maxim from construction: &#8220;Measure twice, cut once&#8221;, I always take care to ensure I&#8217;m ordering the right thing. At least when things are expensive. When they&#8217;re cheap, I&#8217;m&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/01\/sense-of-scale\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,16],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-construction","tag-machining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}