{"id":15,"date":"2008-08-17T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T23:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2008\/08\/17\/1219017067336.html"},"modified":"2008-08-17T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T23:51:07","slug":"blogentry-so-much-for-that-engineering-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] So much for that engineering degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day while mowing the lawn, I knock over one of the lights that goes up my walkway. You know the kind, drive a stake into the ground every few feet.<\/p>\n<p\/>So I stand it back up, take my hand away, and the light goes off.  Rats.  I straighten it back up again, light goes on.  Take my hand away, light goes off.<\/p>\n<p\/>Damnit, I&#039;ve gone and broken the thing, something is loose.<\/p>\n<p\/>I touch it again, light goes on, then I very slowly move my hand away.  No good, as soon as I pull my hand back, it goes out again.<\/p>\n<p\/>I went through this process maybe half a dozen times, getting frustrated that I&#039;ve broken the thing.<\/p>\n<p\/>Until I remember that these lights are solar, light-activated lights, and that every time I grab it, I am covering the sensor and thus causing the light to turn on.  When I pull my hand away I uncover the sensor, and since the sun is still up, the light goes back off.  I look up and realize that the other 8 lights are off, and have been right along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day while mowing the lawn, I knock over one of the lights that goes up my walkway. You know the kind, drive a stake into the ground every few feet. So I stand it back up, take my hand away, and the light goes off. Rats. I straighten it back up again, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}