{"id":2225,"date":"2011-04-05T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/id-put-my-money-on-the-sun-and-solar-energy-thomas-alva-edison.html"},"modified":"2011-04-05T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T21:00:00","slug":"id-put-my-money-on-the-sun-and-solar-energy-thomas-alva-edison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/id-put-my-money-on-the-sun-and-solar-energy-thomas-alva-edison.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;d put my money on the sun and solar energy.&#8221; &#8211;Thomas Alva Edison"},"content":{"rendered":"Sometimes he was a prophet:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statemaster.com\/encyclopedia\/Thomas-Edison\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/ce\/Ford_Edison_Firestone1.jpg\/180px-Ford_Edison_Firestone1.jpg\"><\/a>\n&#8220;We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for\nfuel when we should be using Nature&#8217;s inexhaustible sources of energy \u2014\nsun, wind and tide. &#8230; I&#8217;d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What\na source of power! I hope we don&#8217;t have to wait until oil and coal run\nout before we tackle that.&#8221;\n<p>\n&mdash; Thomas Alva Edison talking to Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone in 1931\n<\/blockquote>\n<center>\n<small>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Edison\">as quoted in Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry\nFord, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel &#038; Charles Lindbergh (1987) by\nJames Newton, p. 31<\/a>\n<\/small>\n<\/center>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes he was a prophet: &#8220;We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature&#8217;s inexhaustible sources of energy \u2014 sun, wind and tide. &#8230; I&#8217;d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don&#8217;t have [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,23,24],"tags":[8753,4778,4777,8782,1879,8714,2254,4775,4776,8716],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","tag-coal","tag-harvey-firestone","tag-henry-ford","tag-oil","tag-power","tag-solar","tag-sun","tag-thomas-alva-edison","tag-tides","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-zT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}