{"id":9194,"date":"2011-04-02T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T12:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9194"},"modified":"2011-04-02T07:41:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T12:41:58","slug":"im-going-to-try-this-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/02\/im-going-to-try-this-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Going To Try This In 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20110402\/NEWS01\/104020352\/Exchange-incandescent-bulbs-CFL-bulbs-April-16?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p\" target=\"_blank\">Exchange incandescent bulbs for CFL bulbs April 16<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Partnership for Sustainability is partnering with Harry Cooper Supply to offer a one-to-one compact fluorescent light bulb exchange on Saturday, April 16.<\/p>\n<p>Families can bring up to five incandescent bulbs to trade for up to five CFL bulbs. Fifteen-watt CFLs are equivalent to 60-watt light bulbs, but use 75 percent less energy and last five times longer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Except, of course, I&#8217;ll run it the other way.<\/p>\n<p>I just replaced a dead 100-watt incandescent bulb in the floor lamp that provides illumination for my reading station with a 60-watt bulb in to prepare for the new Pelosi Dim Age, and I don&#8217;t mind telling you, it sucks.  Since it&#8217;s a floor lamp, it&#8217;s what the greens might think of as a Confined Mercury Release Program, where the poor, innocent Hg raped from the bosom of Mother Gaia (don&#8217;t ask about the inconsistent metaphor.  Consistency, the greens maintain, is a hobgoblin of little minds) is returned to the earth from which it sprung when someone or somecat knocks over the floor lamp containing a fluorescent bulb.  So I&#8217;ll have to keep it stocked with incandescents as long as I can of diminishing yield until I am forced to read by candelight.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I need incandescence.  Even if I have to barter for it in the post-Obamalyptic world of 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exchange incandescent bulbs for CFL bulbs April 16: The Partnership for Sustainability is partnering with Harry Cooper Supply to offer a one-to-one compact fluorescent light bulb exchange on Saturday, April 16. Families can bring up to five incandescent bulbs to trade for up to five CFL bulbs. Fifteen-watt CFLs are equivalent to 60-watt light bulbs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194","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=9194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9196,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions\/9196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}