{"id":66,"date":"2004-07-19T14:52:16","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T14:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=59"},"modified":"2004-07-19T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T14:52:16","slug":"71604","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"7\/16\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Montpelier, Vermont, the state capitol, we met with Doug Wells, a representative of Solar Works.  He said across the country a type of solar system is starting to be installed where once you&#8217;ve used what you&#8217;ve needed for the month, the excess goes back into the grid.  And as it does, &#8220;your meter actually starts to spin backwards,&#8221; said Wells.  Wells said he got involved with the solar company because he wanted to be part of the solution toward a more sustainable world.  While a philosophy major at Miami University, Wells said he came up with, well, this philosophy:  <em>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter whether the glass is half full, or half empty &#8212; if it&#8217;s polluted and you can&#8217;t drink it anyway.&#8221;<\/em>  [A picture ran in the Times Argus newspaper here with me talking to Doug Wells.  The caption said I wanted to make the country safe for kids, cut down on Federal Government, end crime, stop pollution&#8230;  I mean, who wouldn&#8217;t want to vote for that?  Yet the polls, surprisingly, still show we&#8217;re behind.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Montpelier, Vermont, the state capitol, we met with Doug Wells, a representative of Solar Works. He said across the country a type of solar system is starting to be installed where once you&#8217;ve used what you&#8217;ve needed for the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=66\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}