{"id":520,"date":"2013-11-24T23:40:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T23:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=520"},"modified":"2013-11-24T23:40:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T23:40:28","slug":"cold-and-windy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Cold and Windy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the time of year that I have to watch my solar battery-charging system.  Short days and low sun angle mean I rely more on the stored power in the batteries, which isn&#8217;t an issue when the days are sunny.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s been very dark here lately, and though I get a bit of charging from the daylight hours, my batteries are slowly dropping.  I&#8217;ll let them drop as an experiment; since I&#8217;m plugged into AC I can turn on the converter to charge them if they get into danger territory.<\/p>\n<p>Better would be if this miserable weather would break and the sun could be seen.  The west Texas wind and cold arctic air make it unfit for humans outside.  I&#8217;m supposed to be in a tropical climate, complaining about the heat and humidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the time of year that I have to watch my solar battery-charging system. Short days and low sun angle mean I rely more on the stored power in the batteries, which isn&#8217;t an issue when the days are sunny. But it&#8217;s been very dark here lately, and though I get a bit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}