{"id":9430,"date":"2014-01-25T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T17:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9430"},"modified":"2014-01-25T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T17:50:23","slug":"free-cfl-light-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9430","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Free&#8221; CFL light bulbs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140125-122515.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140125-122515.jpg\" alt=\"20140125-122515.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Duke Energy has a program where they will send you 15 &#8220;free&#8221; light bulbs a year, as long as you are a residential customer and agree to not sell them on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a new program &#8211; Duke was doing this back in the 1970s and probably had done it since the 1930s, along with selling discounted electric appliances that you could pay for with a monthly charge on your electric bill.<\/p>\n<p>The irony here is Duke did this originally to increase demand for electricity &#8211; and now the purpose of the program is to get you to buy less electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke Energy has a program where they will send you 15 &#8220;free&#8221; light bulbs a year, as long as you are a residential customer and agree to not sell them on eBay. This is not a new program &#8211; Duke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9430\">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":[15,108,134,122,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-collapse-of-america","category-energy-supply","category-individual-liberty","category-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430","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=9430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9431,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430\/revisions\/9431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}