{"id":28893,"date":"2017-01-01T16:56:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T00:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28893"},"modified":"2017-01-01T17:03:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T01:03:50","slug":"generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Generator!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gassed it up and filled it with oil today. Read the manual, turned all the right dials, flipped all the right switches, pulled the cord and we were in business. <\/p>\n

This is the new generator under its very first load. (And no, I’m not really into froufrou lamps, but that one belonged to my friend Jill who died three years ago.)<\/p>\n

\"hondageneratorrunninglamp_010116\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And this incredibly<\/em> exciting photo (well, incredibly exciting to me<\/em>, not that I’d expect anyone else to notice) is the new generator running both the refrigerator and a small chest freezer at the same time. I wasn’t sure it could do that, but neither the appliances nor the generator objected. Those two appliances are what matter most.<\/p>\n

\"hondageneratorrunningappliances_010116\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It took seven or eight pulls to get the first crank. New equipment, I expected that. After I disconnected the appliances, shut the generator off, and restarted it, it took one pull only.<\/p>\n

I tell you, guys, this is better than getting my first bicycle the Christmas I was 10. Definitely a bigger surprise, too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gassed it up and filled it with oil today. Read the manual, turned all the right dials, flipped all the right switches, pulled the cord and we were in business. This is the new generator under its very first load. (And no, I’m not really into froufrou lamps, but that one belonged to my friend Jill who died three years ago.) And this incredibly exciting photo (well, incredibly exciting to me, not that I’d expect anyone else to notice) is the new generator running both the refrigerator and a small chest freezer at the same time. I wasn’t sure it…<\/p>\n

Continue readingGenerator!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28903,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28893\/revisions\/28903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}