{"id":50439,"date":"2022-02-07T19:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50439"},"modified":"2022-02-07T19:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:03:46","slug":"power-keeps-me-on-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50439","title":{"rendered":"Power keeps me on edge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>So &#8230; the power blinked off for a few minutes today in our North Texas community. The outage appeared to be widespread.<\/p>\n<p>Then it came back on for a couple of seconds, then it went dark again.<\/p>\n<p>It stayed dark for, oh, about 15 more minutes. It&#8217;s back on at this moment.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, though, I am getting the heebie-jeebies over the status of our electrical system. It&#8217;s not supposed to be this squirrely. I mean, we live in the energy capital of the universe. We&#8217;re supposed to be the highest of the high-tech regions anywhere on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Memories of the Winter of 2021 are too fresh in our minds. The power went out for several days during the killer freeze this past February.<\/p>\n<p>I get that we cannot control every single aspect of our lives, given our reliance on technology that, after all, is developed by fellow <em>fallible<\/em> human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this brief power failure makes me nervous as all get-out.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I should add that the weather today is spectacularly gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to hope for the best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So &#8230; the power blinked off for a few minutes today in our North Texas community. The outage appeared to be widespread. Then it came back on for a couple of seconds, then it went dark again. It stayed dark for, oh, about 15 more minutes. It&#8217;s back on at this moment. Truth is, though, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Power keeps me on edge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9618,1611,5561],"class_list":["post-50439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-electricity","tag-ercot","tag-high-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50440,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439\/revisions\/50440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}