{"id":1961,"date":"2012-03-05T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2012-03-05T12:59:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:59:17","slug":"qotd-is-simple-simpler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/03\/05\/qotd-is-simple-simpler\/","title":{"rendered":"QOTD: Is simple simpler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1962\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/techsupportshirt.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1962\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1962\" title=\"techsupportshirt\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/techsupportshirt-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/techsupportshirt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/03\/techsupportshirt.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tech support tee. nerdygeekygifts.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tweeting more and enjoying it less? Have 4000 songs on your iPod, but can&#8217;t play three chords on a guitar? Lost your car at the mall again? Our conveniences can add a lot of complexity to life.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/19420\/20120305\/old-ways-add-up-nicely-for-one-subsistence-family\"> Today&#8217;s story on ice harvesting<\/a> with handsaws and a team of horses prompted Bill Haenel to wonder how the hi-tech approach to living stacks up against a more hands-on one.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Question of the Day is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Is living off the grid easier or harder than a life filled with modern &#8220;conveniences?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Question of the Day: Is living off the grid easier or harder than a life filled with modern &#8220;conveniences?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}