{"id":1453,"date":"2008-08-31T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2008-08-31T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T19:00:47","slug":"power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2008\/08\/31\/power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting in the TV room this morning about 9:30 or so when I heard a power transformer fry up somewhere nearby.   A second later, we were without power.  We were about to head downtown for coffee anyway, so we mounted up and rode down the street on our bikes.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe were just about to the end of our street when we saw this little fellow in the street at the bottom of a telephone pole:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3247\/2814248787_a1bbefe2a5.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3247\/2814248787_a1bbefe2a5_m.jpg\" alt=\"ride the lightning\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Boy, did he smell like singed hair.  I&#8217;m sure he never knew what hit him.  The local power utility just got us back on the grid about 15 minutes ago; no word on whether they took the squirrel when they left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting in the TV room this morning about 9:30 or so when I heard a power transformer fry up somewhere nearby. A second later, we were without power. We were about to head downtown for coffee anyway, so we mounted up and rode down the street on our bikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-nr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}