{"id":9082,"date":"2013-12-10T17:55:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9082"},"modified":"2013-12-10T17:59:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:59:31","slug":"my-13-6-year-light-bulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9082","title":{"rendered":"My 13.6 year light bulb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131210-174656.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131210-174656.jpg\" alt=\"20131210-174656.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;ve been distracted by Obamacare, Fred Upton&#8217;s (R-MI) ban on tungsten incandescent light bulbs closes the next to last &#8220;loophole&#8221; and you won&#8217;t be able to buy 40 or 60 watt regular light bulbs in three weeks (unless you have Mexican smuggling friends)<\/p>\n<p>Being a good patriotic American, I decided to buy an 11 watt LED light bulb that will last 13.6 years *.   It is supposed to be roughly the light of a 60 watt bulb.<\/p>\n<p>After I almost burned my hands removing the &#8220;cool&#8221; CFL bulb, the LED replacement came to life.   It had a very obvious 60 hz flicker when it first came on (it probably uses a rectifying diode).   After it warmed up, that went away or I go used to it.   I believe it may have been $10.<\/p>\n<p>* if you use it 3 hours a day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;ve been distracted by Obamacare, Fred Upton&#8217;s (R-MI) ban on tungsten incandescent light bulbs closes the next to last &#8220;loophole&#8221; and you won&#8217;t be able to buy 40 or 60 watt regular light bulbs in three weeks (unless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9082\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,122,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-individual-liberty","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9085,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions\/9085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}