{"id":1490,"date":"2015-08-07T20:29:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T01:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2015-08-07T20:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T01:29:44","slug":"the-child-in-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"The Child in Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1491\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20150807_185755.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1491\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20150807_185755-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"How many do I need?\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20150807_185755-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20150807_185755-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/20150807_185755.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How many do I need?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my dilemma: When it&#8217;s rainy or cold I spend more time inside watching tv, and that means I use more electricity than my solar can recover. I can run the generator to charge but it&#8217;s not free like the sun, so I decided to construct a way to use my small tv when I want to conserve batteries , and make it portable so that I can take it out of the way when I have lots of juice.  I could set it on the table but I don&#8217;t like to turn my head. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I rode into Vernal to check that the post office would accept some mail for me.    I gathered a couple more items while in town and then headed back up the mountain to my camp. The road out of town has a 60 mph limit and I was going  65. Some idiot behind me had to go faster than that and passed me in an unsafe manner.  Once he reached the curves up the mountain I caught up and stayed right on his ass until he finally pulled off and let me go by. I know I was being childish, and excuse my language, but I can&#8217;t help it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my dilemma: When it&#8217;s rainy or cold I spend more time inside watching tv, and that means I use more electricity than my solar can recover. I can run the generator to charge but it&#8217;s not free like the sun, so I decided to construct a way to use my small tv when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}