{"id":2456,"date":"2007-06-26T07:41:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/but_beware_the_vampire_load.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T12:33:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:33:23","slug":"but_beware_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/but_beware_the.html","title":{"rendered":"But Beware The Vampire Load"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Were it not for all this talk of his possible run for president, he might just be another impotent lame duck mayor no one paid attention to &#8212; one whose only power lay in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06262007\/news\/regionalnews\/green_mayor_issues_diss_charge_regionalnews_david_seifman.htm\">encouraging people to save electricity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> He has a degree in electrical engineering, but even Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday he was surprised to learn that portable chargers draw electricity when they&#8217;re plugged in and not in use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always assumed that chargers for my BlackBerry, which I had plugged in at one end and there&#8217;s no BlackBerry [attached], wasn&#8217;t using any electricity,&#8221; the mayor said. &#8220;I was wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So the mayor recommended that New Yorkers unplug appliances and charging devices whenever practical, one of 10 suggestions that will be part of a multimillion-dollar multimedia campaign to create more environmental awareness in the city through small steps.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were it not for all this talk of his possible run for president, he might just be another impotent lame duck mayor no one paid attention to &#8212; one whose only power lay in encouraging people to save electricity: He has a degree in electrical engineering, but even Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday he was surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}