{"id":28104,"date":"2011-12-27T18:42:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T22:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28104"},"modified":"2011-12-27T18:42:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T22:42:30","slug":"the-nanny-state-damn-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28104","title":{"rendered":"The Nanny State &#8211; Damn Details!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/archives\/48662#more-48662\" target=\"_blank\"> Don Surber:<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2078885\/Fire-hazard-fears-compact-fluorescent-lamps.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fire hazard fears over compact fluorescent lamps &#8211; after they&#8217;ve stopped working<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Compact fluorescent lamps, which will gradually replace traditional incandescent bulbs, are a fire hazard that could burn down your home, experts have warned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The lamps (CFLs) use electricity to heat an element in the lamp\u2019s base that leads the mercury vapor gas in the coils to emit light.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But when a CFL can no longer produce light, the electronics in its base will still try to function, sometimes leading to overheating, smoke and fire.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let us not forget the mercury in the things.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry folks, they mean well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Don Surber: Fire hazard fears over compact fluorescent lamps &#8211; after they&#8217;ve stopped working Compact &hellip; <a title=\"The Nanny State &#8211; Damn Details!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28104\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Nanny State &#8211; Damn Details!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}