{"id":624,"date":"2009-10-01T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T00:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2009-10-01T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T00:30:03","slug":"windmills-pvc-pipe-and-a-little-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/01\/windmills-pvc-pipe-and-a-little-elbow\/","title":{"rendered":"windmills, PVC pipe, and a little elbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think industrial wind power is green? <\/p>\n<p>Now check out <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8257153.stm\">&#8220;The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk&#8230;.&#8221;<\/a> [BBC]<\/p>\n<p>You gotta appreciate this quote: &#8220;Many, including my mother, thought I was going crazy &#8211; people thought I was smoking marijuana&#8230;.&#8221; What a breath of fresh air! And this guy was forced to quit school at age 14 because he couldn&#8217;t cough up the $80 a year tuition. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Boy-Who-Harnessed-Wind-Electricity\/dp\/0061730327\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1254443297&#038;sr=1-1\">Read all about it!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think industrial wind power is green? Now check out &#8220;The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk&#8230;.&#8221; [BBC] You gotta appreciate this quote: &#8220;Many, including my mother, thought I was going crazy &#8211; people thought I was smoking marijuana&#8230;.&#8221; What a breath of fresh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}