{"id":29299,"date":"2021-12-06T10:20:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29299"},"modified":"2021-12-06T07:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T13:40:36","slug":"guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/06\/guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rural-revolution.com\/2021\/12\/firewood-shortage.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrice Lewis asks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A couple weeks ago, I stumbled across an article entitled &#8220;Americans Panic-Buy Firewood And Stoves Amid Energy Crisis&#8221;: &#8220;The global energy crisis has led to a spike in natural gas, heating oil, propane, and power prices, making the cost of heating a home this fall\/winter very expensive. As a result, Americans are panic buying cords of wood and stoves to deflect soaring fossil fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8230;<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Have others noticed this? Is anyone transitionng [sic] to wood heat this winter in response to energy prices?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I wouldn&#8217;t say <em>panic buying<\/em>, but I did <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/15\/a-weekends-work\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">lay some extra wood up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although I haven&#8217;t even bothered to light a <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/04\/the-hidden-shame-of-nogglestead\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">fireplace candle<\/a> the last few nights as the daytime temperatures hereabouts have been in the upper 60s or lower 70s for the last week.  Which does not warrant a little flickering light in the family room no matter how early it gets dark.<\/p>\n<p>Still, in one of the phrases that my boys will someday say &#8220;My father always said,&#8221; it&#8217;s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrice Lewis asks: A couple weeks ago, I stumbled across an article entitled &#8220;Americans Panic-Buy Firewood And Stoves Amid Energy Crisis&#8221;: &#8220;The global energy crisis has led to a spike in natural gas, heating oil, propane, and power prices, making the cost of heating a home this fall\/winter very expensive. As a result, Americans are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29300,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29299\/revisions\/29300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}