{"id":7417,"date":"2017-02-05T15:44:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T23:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=7417"},"modified":"2017-02-05T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T23:44:32","slug":"i-fixed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/05\/i-fixed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I Fixed It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about a new phone because my battery isn&#8217;t holding a charge as well as it used to. When I found out that a new battery cost $5, I couldn&#8217;t, in good conscience, spend $450 on a new phone!<\/p>\n<p>I was nervous about tearing my phone apart but it went exactly the way the video from \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/\">IFixIt.com<\/a> \u00a0and \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gwendolyngay?lang=en\">Gwendolyn Gay<\/a> \u00a0said. Mad props to them \u00a0for making great tools and a great video that walked me through it. I also replaced the headphone jack that was filled with pocket lint.<\/p>\n<p>Total cost: $5 battery, $8 headphone jack, $40 kit, 1.5 hours of my time.<\/p>\n<p>Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>PS. Midway through the repair, I had the patient lying on the kitchen table with all the screws and wires out. I thought &#8220;there is the money shot. Take a picture!&#8221; Then I remembered that I was looking down at my camera in 20 pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about a new phone because my battery isn&#8217;t holding a charge as well as it used to. When I found out that a new battery cost $5, I couldn&#8217;t, in good conscience, spend $450 on a new phone! I was nervous about tearing my phone apart but it went exactly the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}