{"id":575,"date":"2012-11-12T11:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2012-12-05T11:22:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:22:38","slug":"light-bulbs-they-dont-make-em-like-they-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Light bulbs: They don\u2019t make \u2018em like they used to"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/3099-longest-burning-light-bulb.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Old light bulb\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/50\/Cabinet_IV_-_philips_lightbulbs.jpg\" alt=\"Old light bulb\" width=\"205\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jane023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Weekend circulars and hardware store ads tout \u201clong-lasting\u201d light bulbs that burn for 10,000-20,000 hours, but they can\u2019t hold a candle to the subject of this story: a bulb that has shed continuous light for over a century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/3099-longest-burning-light-bulb.html \" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s the Longest Burning Light Bulb?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend circulars and hardware store ads tout \u201clong-lasting\u201d light bulbs that burn for 10,000-20,000 hours, but they can\u2019t hold a candle to the subject of this story: a bulb that has shed continuous light for over a century. What&#8217;s the Longest Burning Light Bulb?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,54,94,4,73,74,3,13],"tags":[479,483,480,481,482,431],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer","category-electromagnetism","category-engineering","category-history","category-materials","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","tag-centennial-light-bulb","tag-general-electric","tag-guinness-book-of-world-records","tag-ripleys-believe-it-or-not","tag-shelby-electric-company","tag-thomas-edison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}