{"id":13677,"date":"2013-12-27T02:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=13677"},"modified":"2014-01-06T14:45:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:45:32","slug":"retractable-cable-combination-lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/retractable-cable-combination-lock\/","title":{"rendered":"Retractable Cable Combination Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<strong>UPDATE 6 January 20014<\/strong>: Unrecommended! See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K32gKwdbefg\">video<\/a> of how Mark cut the cable with a pair of scissors.]<\/p>\n<p>You ran into the store for one minute, came back out and your bike was gone! Or your skis, or motorcycle helmet. <\/p>\n<p>You know that big, heavy, secure lock you never carry because it&#8217;s too big and heavy? This is the compromise solution &#8211; easy to carry and easy to use. This lightweight cable lock fits in your pocket and prevents &#8220;casual theft.&#8221; Let them steal someone else&#8217;s bike\/skis\/helmet (not cruel, just realistic). The retractable cable extends 24 inches.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using these for about 10 years or so. Squirt a little WD-40 into it once in a while to keep it from freezing in the cold. Replace it at the first sign of balkiness (it&#8217;s cheap enough).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual deterrent to amateur thieves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"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},"categories":[85,235],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13948,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677\/revisions\/13948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}