{"id":4475,"date":"2015-08-15T09:25:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T23:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2015-08-16T09:42:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T23:42:08","slug":"back-home-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=4475","title":{"rendered":"Back home next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Doc is making tracks and will be back in Sydney next week, after 4 months on the road. The car has been serviced, bushes replaced, windscreen replaced, the electrical problem fixed (wire became exposed and was shorting on the towbar)\u00a0 bonnet scoop upgraded, dents removed (mostly stone hits), front drag links upgraded, wheels aligned and the outside washed. The Patrol is running like new.<\/p>\n<p>While in Ballina The Doc has been taking it easy, whale watching, watching some movies (Ant-Man, Fantastic 4 and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and working on the car. Plus watching Series 1 to 6 of Inspector George Gently.<\/p>\n<p>Time to go home to catch up on domestic matters and prepare for the upcoming New Zealand trip in September!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-20-Jan-2015-0047.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3820\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3820\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-20-Jan-2015-0047.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-RX100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1421779342&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;(c) Michael G Hains 2015&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;37.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ballina 20 Jan 2015 -0047\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-20-Jan-2015-0047.jpg?fit=604%2C403&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3820\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-20-Jan-2015-0047.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"Ballina 20 Jan 2015 -0047\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-20-Jan-2015-0047.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-20-Jan-2015-0047.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-20-Jan-2015-0047.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-5-Jan-2015-0024.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3821\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3821\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-5-Jan-2015-0024.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-RX100M2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1420480559&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;(c) Michael G Hains 2014&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;37.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ballina  5 Jan 2015 -0024\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-5-Jan-2015-0024.jpg?fit=604%2C403&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3821\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-5-Jan-2015-0024.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"Ballina  5 Jan 2015 -0024\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-5-Jan-2015-0024.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-5-Jan-2015-0024.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ballina-5-Jan-2015-0024.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doc is making tracks and will be back in Sydney next week, after 4 months on the road. The car has been serviced, bushes replaced, windscreen replaced, the electrical problem fixed (wire became exposed and was shorting on the towbar)\u00a0 bonnet scoop upgraded, dents removed (mostly stone hits), front drag links upgraded, wheels aligned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=4475\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back home next week<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42vG0-1ab","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4483,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}