{"id":4169,"date":"2010-05-27T22:39:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T03:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2010-05-28T07:01:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T12:01:22","slug":"for-those-who-think-im-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=4169","title":{"rendered":"For Those Who Think I&#8217;m Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually gave in to Brian last week.  I&#8217;d been trying to hold out on turning our AC on until June.  Last week, however, I&#8217;d had enough of Brian&#8217;s incessant whining.  I finally agreed to turn on our AC and leave it on.  I rather liked the $60 power bill we had last month.  I doubt it will ever be that low again until fall.  Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really do much to save on energy, but holding out on using your AC makes a huge difference.  This is because ACs use the bulk of home energy consumption.  I never set our AC lower than 78 degrees, another point of contention between Brian and me.  He likes it at a constant 72 degrees.  Believe it or not, those 6 degrees amount to a lot of dollars &#8212; specially on hot summer days.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ql8EC9Ui92U&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ql8EC9Ui92U&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.westarenergy.com\/corp_com\/contentmgt.nsf\/publishedpages\/energy%20efficiency%20tips\" >here are some tips on how to reduce your energy consumption and become more energy efficient<\/a>.  What about you?  What are some things that you do to save money on your energy bill?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually gave in to Brian last week. I&#8217;d been trying to hold out on turning our AC on until June. Last week, however, I&#8217;d had enough of Brian&#8217;s incessant whining. I finally agreed to turn on our AC and leave it on. I rather liked the $60 power bill we had last month. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,80,303],"tags":[1058,1057],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}