{"id":95,"date":"2010-05-23T22:59:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T02:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2010-05-23T22:59:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T02:59:04","slug":"trying-to-keep-our-lives-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/23\/trying-to-keep-our-lives-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Keep Our Lives Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many items must you charge at night to keep tomorrow online? It used to be a cordless drill. A golf cart or a motorcycle you never get a chance to ride. But what about today?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/duracell-my-grid-battery-charging-566x325.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"96\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/23\/trying-to-keep-our-lives-charged\/duracell-my-grid-battery-charging-566x325\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/duracell-my-grid-battery-charging-566x325.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"566,325\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"duracell-my-grid-battery-charging-566&amp;#215;325\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/duracell-my-grid-battery-charging-566x325.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-96\" title=\"duracell-my-grid-battery-charging-566x325\" src=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/duracell-my-grid-battery-charging-566x325-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/duracell-my-grid-battery-charging-566x325-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/duracell-my-grid-battery-charging-566x325.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I know I have a few. Well, more than a few. Obviously, my cell phone. I just have one of those. My wife has two! What else? A Sony e-reader. A Kindle. Bluetooth stereo headphones. A bluetooth earpiece \u2013 or simply my bluetooth. Is that all? Let me think? Well I also have a laptop. I have a slate. And ironically, I live in a house that has no grounded outlets \u2013 built in 1936.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that must be all right? Thank goodness usb drives and flash sticks don\u2019t require charging. Oh, I forgot my cellular modem, or mifi. My wireless mouse at work needs cradle charging about once a week.<\/p>\n<p>Everything needs a charge. I suppose it\u2019s better than having to buy batteries and disposing of the depleted ones. But, it\u2019s only going to get worse. Electric cars must be charged. Boy, the day would be a bummer when you forget to plug your car in the night before!<\/p>\n<p>Our lives need to be charged. We can\u2019t forget. We need our devices right? Our rechargeable flashlights, weather radios, wireless speakers, lasers (wife, hair, don\u2019t ask), it goes on and on!<\/p>\n<p>I suppose one day we might have a \u201cDon\u2019t use a rechargeable device day.\u201d \u2013 but who would honor it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many items must you charge at night to keep tomorrow online? It used to be a cordless drill. A golf cart or a motorcycle you never get a chance to ride. But what about today? I know I have a few. Well, more than a few. Obviously, my cell &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gH3K-1x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}