{"id":12718,"date":"2018-08-06T11:06:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T11:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/?p=12718"},"modified":"2018-08-28T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T12:20:16","slug":"new-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/?p=12718","title":{"rendered":"new shoes."},"content":{"rendered":"

four flat tyres in six days! ok, the first one was my fault: i was running the tyres with too low pressure. the result was a stake through the sidewall and a written-off tyre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

then, still on the gibb, and with significantly more tyre pressure another rock punched through the thread<\/a>. the hole was big enough to make that a write-off, too.\u00a0 so when we rolled into kununurra we knew we were up for 2 new tyres. or so we thought.<\/p>\n

another trip to the zebra rock mine – about 20 km off-road there and back – ended up with another hole, this time a smaller one. but that was just a really short excursion and hardly a rough road!<\/p>\n

and then yesterday, as we drove out to see the aboriginal rock paintings near wyndham<\/a>\u00a0we ended up with another slow leak on a similarly short and fairly well graded outback road. it was easy enough to fix but that was enough for us.<\/p>\n

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today we replaced the leak-prone cooper zeons with maxxis 980s. no predictions at this point, but we keep our fingers crossed that these will hold up better. they certainly look tougher; let’s hope looks are not deceiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

four flat tyres in six days! ok, the first one was my fault: i was running the tyres with too low pressure. the result was a stake through the sidewall and a written-off tyre. then, still on the gibb, and with significantly more tyre pressure another rock punched through the thread. the hole was big… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13057,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-blog","category-the-long-way-round"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/oz_trip_88-1-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MvER-3j8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13059,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718\/revisions\/13059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}