{"id":26682,"date":"2023-01-22T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=26682"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:53:20","slug":"how-to-change-flat-tire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/skills\/cars\/how-to-change-flat-tire\/","title":{"rendered":"Skill of the Week: Change a Flat Tire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-174870\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SOTW-Flat-Tire-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SOTW-Flat-Tire-2-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SOTW-Flat-Tire-2-1-320x553.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SOTW-Flat-Tire-2-1-640x1107.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world \u2014 having the breadth of skills, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manly-lessons\/develop-savoir-faire-james-bond\/\">savoir-faire<\/a>, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we\u2019ll be republishing one of the illustrated guides from our archives, so you can hone your manly know-how week by week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you have roadside assistance, maybe you don&#8217;t. Either way, you should know how to change a flat tire yourself. You never know if you, a loved one, or even a stranger, is going to need the help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world \u2014 having the breadth of skills, the&nbsp;savoir-faire, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we\u2019ll be republishing one of the illustrated guides from our archives, so you can hone your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42382,6,229,42259],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cars","category-featured","category-illustrated-guides","category-skills"],"featured_image_urls":{"reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tire-feat-320x188.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26682"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39244,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682\/revisions\/39244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26682"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}