{"id":15424,"date":"2026-02-27T22:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=15424"},"modified":"2026-02-27T23:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:07:14","slug":"new-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-used\/","title":{"rendered":"New\/Used"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15425\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ch273c3-COR6F5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15425\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ch273c3-COR6F5.jpg\" alt=\"child hands above, work hands below\" width=\"1028\" height=\"1654\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left hand vs. MacPherson strut accelerated by its spring&#8217;s elastic potential energy and gravity, May 4, 1993.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">The attached black-and-white photo (presumably of his hand or the aftermath) is captioned with near-scientific precision: a MacPherson strut (front suspension component in many cars) released violently, powered by the coil spring&#8217;s stored energy plus gravity, hitting his left hand on May 4, 1993.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">This was almost certainly during his auto mechanic phase\u2014a wound from hands-on work. The phrasing (&#8220;Left hand vs. MacPherson strut&#8221;) has a humorous, mock-epic tone, like titling a boxing match. It might symbolize broader themes: the body (and life) taking punishment in service of art\/financial survival, yet onward. Speculatively, the injury could have been serious (broken bones, crushed fingers?), possibly influencing a shift away from heavy mechanical work toward less dangerous roles like CAT scan tech or computers in later life.&#8211;Grok<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attached black-and-white photo (presumably of his hand or the aftermath) is captioned with near-scientific precision: a MacPherson strut (front suspension component in many cars) released violently, powered by the coil spring&#8217;s stored energy plus gravity, hitting his left hand on May 4, 1993. This was almost certainly during his auto mechanic phase\u2014a wound from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-used\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New\/Used&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15,26,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damage","category-parts","category-repair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15428,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15424\/revisions\/15428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}