{"id":2200,"date":"2012-10-18T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2012-10-18T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T15:59:07","slug":"change-for-the-sake-of-change-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/change-for-the-sake-of-change-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Change for the sake of change&#8230;.WHY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to replace the light fixture on our ceiling fan last night. So we go to the local Big Home improvement store <em>(Name Withheld)<\/em> first after getting insulted by the condescending little guy with the apron. He proceeds to tell me that <strong>&#8220;I cannot buy a new fixture with a normal light bulb&#8221;<\/strong>. I just wanted a simple one light fixture, <strong>OH NO we can&#8217;t be having that<\/strong>. Now I know that one cannot find a normal old fashioned light bulb anymore. They have gone by the way of the cassette player and the carburetor. But now I am finding that they <em>(You Know Who <strong>They<\/strong> Are)<\/em> are changing the bulbs over to the little base type Called <strong>Candelabra<\/strong>. <em>What was wrong with the original light bulb base the one that has been around since Tommy invented the damn thing!<\/em> How does changing the size of the base improve the planet? which I thought was the reason for the new bulbs in the first place. I know I&#8217;m old and stuck in my ways but, why change just to change? I know change is inevitable but <strong>if it ain&#8217;t broke, don&#8217;t fix it!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to replace the light fixture on our ceiling fan last night. So we go to the local Big Home improvement store (Name Withheld) first after getting insulted by the condescending little guy with the apron. He proceeds to tell me that &#8220;I cannot buy a new fixture with a normal light bulb&#8221;. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,20,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}