{"id":10750,"date":"2013-03-27T08:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T08:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=bc733ae55acdba5033a8126dc1eb4c88"},"modified":"2013-03-27T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T08:40:23","slug":"the-mad-hatter-isaac-newton-and-that-old-thermostat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/the-mad-hatter-isaac-newton-and-that-old-thermostat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mad Hatter, Isaac Newton, and That Old Thermostat"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Ruminations on life, mercury, and the environment        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/mad-hatter-isaac-newton-and-old-thermostat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Mad-Hatter-By-Tenniel-large.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Mad Hatter\" width=\"144\" height=\"164\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/mad-hatter-isaac-newton-and-old-thermostat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/thermostat-1941-honeywell-minneapolis-guy-theriot-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1941 Honeywell thermostat\" width=\"144\" height=\"245\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/mad-hatter-isaac-newton-and-old-thermostat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/hvac-thermostat-mercury-environment-recycle.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Thermostat with mercury\" width=\"144\" height=\"101\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/mad-hatter-isaac-newton-and-old-thermostat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/hvac-thermostat-mercury-closeup-energy-vanguard.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Thermostat with mercury, closeup\" width=\"144\" height=\"120\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I was a kid a long, long time ago. Seems like it was another century &#8230; another millennium even. Wait a minute &mdash; it was another millennium!<\/p>\n<p>That was back in the day when we used to ride bicycles without helmets, apply mercury to our wounds, move seat belts out of the way (if the car even had them), and put our tongue on steel poles in the middle of winter. Of course, in Texas and Louisiana we just ended up with a bad taste in our mouth from those steel poles and wondered why people made such a big deal about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3119,830,5883,7981],"class_list":["post-10750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-environment","tag-hvac","tag-mercury","tag-thermostat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}