{"id":307,"date":"2006-11-19T11:29:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T11:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/11\/break-the-peg-diddle-iddle-iddle-um\/"},"modified":"2006-11-19T11:44:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T11:44:59","slug":"break-the-peg-diddle-iddle-iddle-um","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/11\/19\/break-the-peg-diddle-iddle-iddle-um\/","title":{"rendered":"Break The Peg (Diddle Iddle Iddle Um)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"floatingimagediv\" style=\"width:210px;\"><img src='\/images\/mill1.jpg' alt='The band' width='200' height='150' \/><\/p>\n<p>The band in question, on the date in question.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I finally got round to replacing the broken tuning peg on my guitar. Five years, three months and seven days ago, when the band were round at the windmill jamming with the Hoff ((no, not David Hasselhoff. I&#8217;m talking about a guy who was the Hoff long before David H was a twinkle in his parents&#8217; eyes)), my dad borrowed my guitar for a quick strum or eight. He turned round too quickly, bashed the headstock into a cymbal or something, and cracked the tuning peg which fell off its stalk.<\/p>\n<p>I superglued it back together, but it never really gripped the stalk as tightly as it should, and had a tendency to fall off at most inopportune moments. It&#8217;s a miracle that I never lost it altogether.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/peg2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Old tuning peg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was in the music shop looking for <a href=\"\/blog\/2006\/11\/man\/#comment-5856\">guitar string polish<\/a>, when I saw a pack of six Gibson-style tuning pegs on the wall ((you can&#8217;t buy them separately, which is probably one of the reasons why I never got round to replacing it before)) and decided that since I am no longer a poor student, I can probably afford \u00c2\u00a313.99 for the sake of getting it sorted out at long last.<\/p>\n<p>See if you can tell which is the new one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/peg1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"New tuning peg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The band in question, on the date in question. I finally got round to replacing the broken tuning peg on my guitar. Five years, three months and seven days ago, when the band were round at the windmill jamming with the Hoff ((no, not David Hasselhoff. I&#8217;m talking about a guy who was the Hoff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}