{"id":1148,"date":"2010-03-26T17:19:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T00:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2010-03-26T17:19:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T00:19:25","slug":"human-achievement-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Human Achievement Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my lights are powered by nuclear fusion<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-1148-1' id='fnref-1148-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(1148)'>1<\/a><\/sup>, I will not be turning them off tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I will be turning on all that I can, in order to <a href=\"http:\/\/cei.org\/news-release\/2010\/03\/19\/force-darkness-%E2%80%9Cearth-hour%E2%80%9D-challenged-power-light-%E2%80%9Chuman-achievement-hour%E2%80%9D\">celebrate human ingenuity and technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you <i>really<\/i> care about the earth, why don&#8217;t you spend a <i>month<\/i> naked in the woods, without fire, which, after all, produces carbon emissions!<\/p>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-1148'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-1148-1'> The sun heats up the ocean, whence water vapor forms clouds, which precipitate rain onto the mountains, which runs into a turbine and powers my lights. <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-1148-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my lights are powered by nuclear fusion1, I will not be turning them off tomorrow night. Instead I will be turning on all that I can, in order to celebrate human ingenuity and technology. If you really care about the earth, why don&#8217;t you spend a month naked in the woods, without fire, which, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Human Achievement Hour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,4],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-space","category-world","tag-progressivism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}