{"id":221,"date":"2005-11-12T08:06:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T06:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=221"},"modified":"2005-11-12T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T06:06:06","slug":"a-day-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"A day without power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been experiencing lots of synchronicity. So perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t have been too surprised when, shortly after a conversation on the end of oil, the cities, mass deaths from the coming bird flu etc. with a friend of a rather more apocalyptic bent than me, the power in Cape Town gets cut (it turns out due to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&amp;click_id=13&amp;art_id=qw113172912087B216#jump\">Koeberg failure<\/a>). It seems this is no longer just a Joburg phenomonen. I twiddle my thumbs, waiting for its <em>imminent<\/em> restoration. After 3 hours the workers installing the alarm give up and go home. Night falls. We eat fruit for supper. I prepare to take a <em>Dark City<\/em> shot from the bedroom window, only to find that power has been restored to the entire city except for a tiny little sliver in Oranjezicht, where I live. I read by candleight. At 9pm the power is still not restored, and I go to bed.<\/p>\n<p>After the recent ADSL outage, I&#8217;m getting lots of practice for when it all falls apart \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been experiencing lots of synchronicity. So perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t have been too surprised when, shortly after a conversation on the end of oil, the cities, mass deaths from the coming bird flu etc. with a friend of a rather more apocalyptic bent than me, the power in Cape Town gets cut (it turns out&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=221\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A day without power<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-social","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}