{"id":304,"date":"2004-10-12T22:58:25","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T05:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?p=304"},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:19:20","slug":"hows-this-supposed-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s this supposed to help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be free parking near our local REI, underneath the freeway. They just installed solar-powered parking meters there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandonline.com\/transportation\/Smartmeter\/images\/MVC-503S_SOLARPANEL.JPG\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>Notice I said, &#8220;under the freeway.&#8221; Apparently the geniuses at the City of Portland who replaced all the old parking meters with the new, solar powered &#8220;SmartMeters,&#8221; also have to pull out the batteries and recharge them on a regular schedule. Somehow I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re ever going to make back the money they spent on the meters, but that&#8217;s progress, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be free parking near our local REI, underneath the freeway. They just installed solar-powered parking meters there. Notice I said, &#8220;under the freeway.&#8221; Apparently the geniuses at the City of Portland who replaced all the old parking meters with the new, solar powered &#8220;SmartMeters,&#8221; also have to pull out the batteries and recharge them on a regular schedule. Somehow I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re ever going to make back the money they spent on the meters, but that&#8217;s progress, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}