{"id":23271,"date":"2024-10-10T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=23271"},"modified":"2024-10-10T21:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:38:11","slug":"the-incredible-discovery-of-a-lost-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=23271","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Discovery of a Lost Part."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Incredible Discovery of a Lost Part, A HUNT IN THE JUNGLE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1999, my wife and I lived on the island of Wa\u2019ab, part of the Federated States of Micronesia. We had a trusty Suzuki Samurai from 1987, which had been shipped all the way from California to Yap. One day, my wife decided it was time to get her driver\u2019s license, but there was a problem \u2014 our car&#8217;s odometer cable had rusted out, and without a working speedometer, the vehicle couldn\u2019t be used for her test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After fruitless attempts\u2026 See more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-414-668x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-414-668x1024.png 668w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-414-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-414.png 707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1999, my wife and I lived on the island of Wa\u2019ab, part of the Federated States of Micronesia. We had a trusty Suzuki Samurai from 1987, which had been shipped all the way from California to Yap. One day, my wife decided it was time to get her driver\u2019s license, but there was a problem \u2014 our car&#8217;s odometer cable had rusted out, and without a working speedometer, the vehicle couldn\u2019t be used for her test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-415.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-415.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-415-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-415-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-415-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After fruitless attempts to find a replacement cable on the island, including tracking down wrecked vehicles overgrown in the jungle, I turned to the local repair shop. Suzuki had stopped stocking parts for our model years ago, and ordering one from Japan would take weeks. Just when I thought hope was lost, a young mechanic remembered a scrap heap behind the hospital. There, we found a brand-new odometer cable in factory packaging \u2014 a find so improbable it felt like magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-416.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-416.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-416-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-416-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-416-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The very next day, with the cable installed, my wife passed her driving test, and we drove away in our fixed-up Samurai, marveling at the strange twist of fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=23266\" title=\"\">also read&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> <\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Incredible Discovery of a Lost Part, A HUNT IN THE JUNGLE In 1999, my wife and I lived on the island of Wa\u2019ab, part of the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23275,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23271\/revisions\/23275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}