{"id":249,"date":"2011-07-16T21:47:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T01:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=249"},"modified":"2011-07-17T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T14:23:00","slug":"dim-bulbs-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Dim bulbs unite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans (and their presidential candidates) are proud of their legislative accomplishment on Friday &#8212; passing a measure that prohibits the Energy Department from implementing the phaseout of incandescent light bulbs to new technology.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans say the fight isn&#8217;t over energy efficiency but over the government&#8217;s control in society.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Republican who authored measure, Michael Burgess, said: &#8220;This is about the consumer driving the market, not the federal government deciding the market.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans (and their presidential candidates) are proud of their legislative accomplishment on Friday &#8212; passing a measure that prohibits the Energy Department from implementing the phaseout of incandescent light bulbs to new technology. The Republicans say the fight isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=249\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}