{"id":3398,"date":"2012-03-21T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2012-03-21T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:04:22","slug":"light-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/light-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Light switch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cf1229-A5886-locust-avenue.jpg\" alt=\"landing strip\"><br \/>\nThis evening, 7:00-9:00 pm, there is a City roundtable discussion about budgetary matters. It&#8217;s hard to take these meetings seriously after many years, hard not to be sarcastic. The public attends, and speaks. Roundfile&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cf1229-A5890-locust-newspaper.jpg\" alt=\"fine print\"><br \/>\nBudgets are about shepherding and allocating resources. The little money adds up to big money. Our City pats itself on the back for being &#8220;Green&#8221;. Buying battery operated cars. Hey fellows? <a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/28\/green-city-philippic\/\">Where is the light switch<\/a>? 13.7 footcandles of light falling on that newspaper. The hot spots on the sidewalk are 47 footcandles! Super size me&#8230;<br \/>\nA lighting designer could take the electricity being used on this bridge and light a small village.<br \/>\nElsewhere on Locust Avenue, north and south of the bridge, illumination levels are sensible, around 0.2 footcandles.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cf1229-A5891-bridge-runner.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nRunning through the tanning salon.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cf1229-A5900-rt-250.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nBeneath the Locust Avenue bridge is the Richmond Road, Route 250. I tried  the pedestrian experience beneath the bridge. There are narrow sidewalks on the left and right. Harrowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, 7:00-9:00 pm, there is a City roundtable discussion about budgetary matters. It&#8217;s hard to take these meetings seriously after many years, hard not to be sarcastic. The public attends, and speaks. Roundfile&#8230; Budgets are about shepherding and allocating resources. The little money adds up to big money. Our City pats itself on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/light-switch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Light switch?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville","category-night"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}