{"id":909,"date":"2020-08-27T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:08:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T14:08:13","slug":"fried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Fried"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wire.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wire.png 500w, https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wire-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wire-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wire-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Radio power wires (black and red). One with an incomplete powerpole.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things to be very wary of with radio is how much current one is drawing at a given moment. It determines how much battery is drained in the field and in the shack, well, it can sometimes make for weird smells and smoke. That&#8217;s not what happened here. Here, it was just a failure in a powerpole. Something simple. A connector in a system that wasn&#8217;t quite right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s in the air right now. Everything feels like one component or another in a long chain is falling over. This is in every person&#8217;s life and in the country writ large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel it. I wonder if I can fix all of the little connectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things to be very wary of with radio is how much current one is drawing at a given moment. It determines how much battery is drained in the field and in the shack, well, it can sometimes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=909\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}