{"id":2131,"date":"2012-07-06T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2012-07-06T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T19:29:10","slug":"i-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/06\/i-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder?&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.How many of those millions of people on the East coast that have been without electricity for a week might now agree with my outlook that ALL electric lines should be buried?&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Hu-m-m-m, just a thought&#8230;&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0I also wonder, although I know the answer, how many politicians in Washington D.C. went without power for more than a day?&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0My answer would be NONE!&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0(Of course, I&#8217;m not including those politicians who are on some higher-up politician&#8217;s S-List &#8211; They may be without power for a long, long time)&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>We have become dangerously dependent upon a very unreliable source of energy that effects almost every aspect of our daily lives, and, this source is mis-managed, under-maintained, and about as secure from damage by outside forces (weather, thieves, terrorists, etc.) as an egg trying to hold up a cement block&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0WAKE UP, AMERICA!!!!&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s pretty sad when you can look at any picture taken in the 1920-30&#8217;s and the constant with a picture taken today is all the utility poles, and, upon closer examination, you find that the poles in 20-30&#8217;s pictures are bigger, straighter, stronger, and obviously better maintained&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Sad, sad&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0Post that on your Blog and argue it out&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0That is, IF YOU HAVE ELECTRICITY!&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0(YES, batteries do have to be recharged, with, guess what &#8211; ELECTRICITY!&#8230;..) \u00c2\u00a0(Step off soapbox, Pound Head against wall because nobody&#8217;s listening)&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.How many of those millions of people on the East coast that have been without electricity for a week might now agree with my outlook that ALL electric lines should be buried?&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Hu-m-m-m, just a thought&#8230;&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0I also wonder, although I know the answer, how many politicians in Washington D.C. went without power for more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,20,27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}