{"id":988,"date":"2009-11-18T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2009-11-18T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T22:50:14","slug":"dialing-for-pixels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/18\/dialing-for-pixels\/","title":{"rendered":"dialing for pixels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most folks are now aware that the great state of California has decided to clamp down on flat screen TV&#8217;s. As reported in the <em>New York Times<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/18\/california-approves-tv-efficiency-rules\/?hp\">&#8220;California regulators on Wednesday approved the nation\u2019s first energy efficiency standards for televisions, requiring their electricity consumption to be cut nearly in half by 2013.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a consumer protection measure, a measure that will protect the environment and which will save us from building a massive new power plant,\u201d said Karen Douglas, chairman of the California Energy Commission, at a meeting in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a reality show junkie to do? We must protect consumers from themselves. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, the better idea is so simple it flew too far beneath the radar to be noticed &#8211; <strong>Turn Off the Freaking Television<\/strong> and do something requiring an iota of intelligence. End of problem; consumer is protected. <\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most folks are now aware that the great state of California has decided to clamp down on flat screen TV&#8217;s. As reported in the New York Times, &#8220;California regulators on Wednesday approved the nation\u2019s first energy efficiency standards for televisions, requiring their electricity consumption to be cut nearly in half by 2013.&#8221; \u201cThis is a [&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-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}