{"id":1684,"date":"2014-03-28T15:13:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T19:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2015-03-29T19:10:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T23:10:52","slug":"sergio-at-automotive-alley-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"Sergio at Automotive Alley Garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planning a trip to Los Angeles starts with a visit to the Roadside America web site.\u00a0 That&#8217;s where I found Sergio.\u00a0 The automotive alley garage area is unlike anything I&#8217;ve see in the US.\u00a0 There is a 4 or 5 block area of shops selling car parts.\u00a0 While we were there I saw cars pull up and asked for a part for a model year car.\u00a0 For example, &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for an alternator for a 1996 Toyota.&#8221;\u00a0 It was like a drive-in for auto parts. All the people I could see were Hispanic and they were curious why a couple of white folks were on their turf.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1685\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14muffman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1685\" data-attachment-id=\"1685\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=1685\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14muffman.jpg?fit=2160%2C3079\" data-orig-size=\"2160,3079\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;James J Hejl&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS REBEL T3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1396030414&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;55&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sergio Muffler Man\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;14muffman &#8211; IMG_2407&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sergio Muffler Man&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14muffman.jpg?fit=145%2C207\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14muffman.jpg?fit=494%2C705\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1685\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14muffman.jpg?resize=210%2C300\" alt=\"muffler\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14muffman.jpg?resize=210%2C300 210w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14muffman.jpg?resize=718%2C1024 718w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14muffman.jpg?resize=105%2C150 105w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14muffman.jpg?w=1600 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergio Muffler Man<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning a trip to Los Angeles starts with a visit to the Roadside America web site.\u00a0 That&#8217;s where I found Sergio.\u00a0 The automotive alley garage area is unlike anything I&#8217;ve see in the US.\u00a0 There is a 4 or 5 block area of shops selling car parts.\u00a0 While we were \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1684\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZlNF-ra","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}