{"id":616,"date":"2014-02-23T23:27:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=616"},"modified":"2014-02-23T23:27:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:27:11","slug":"quiet-at-quartzsite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"Quiet at Quartzsite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are much quieter here now, and I like it.  There are still the basic sellers around, but the transients have pretty much left.  The best deal is that traffic is down to nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Several weeks ago I spotted a refurbished Xantrax inverter at Discount Solar which looked like it would fit the bill for what I was looking for.  I had a small, cheap inverter for running the TV now and then, but the remote on\/off circuit failed a year or so ago.  Not that much of a hassle to go outside to turn it off and on, but not ideal.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised to see that it was still at Discount, priced at one half of a new model.  I chatted with the tech (a most interesting person), we hooked it up to play with it, and I bought it.  It&#8217;s not new, but I saved about $160.  Besides having the remote on\/off functional, it&#8217;s big enough to run my microwave, which is the biggest power draw I have at 110V.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be here until later in the week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are much quieter here now, and I like it. There are still the basic sellers around, but the transients have pretty much left. The best deal is that traffic is down to nothing. Several weeks ago I spotted a refurbished Xantrax inverter at Discount Solar which looked like it would fit the bill for [&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-616","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\/616","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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}