{"id":181700,"date":"2013-02-19T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123336784"},"modified":"2013-02-19T12:25:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T16:25:21","slug":"save-100-a-year-unplug-a-mini-fridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=181700","title":{"rendered":"Save $100 a year; unplug a mini-fridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123336784\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2013\/02\/130215-F-BD327-013.JPG\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Anyone who has had a leaky roof knows even little drops will eventually fill a bucket and flood house. When spending money on wasted energy, small improvements can add up to big dollars saved.<\/p>\n<p>One type of energy often wasted is standby power; this is the power an appliance uses when it is turned off. Hitting the power button or flipping a switch to an off position doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean the appliance stops using electricity. Individually, the electronics waste very little electricity while standing idle, but according to the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, a typical home has about 40 products continually drawing electricity. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123336784\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}