{"id":430,"date":"2003-05-02T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-02T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/02\/"},"modified":"2003-05-02T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-02T16:47:00","slug":"430","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/02\/430\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><image src=\"mower.jpg\" alt=\"Clean &#038; Quiet.\" border=0 height=118 width=90>SMUD (Sacramento Metropolitan Utility District) had an offer to trade in your gas powered lawnmower for a rechargeable electric one that they advertised in the paper about a month ago &#8211; you bring them your old mower, and they give you a $469 mower for $225. <\/p>\n<p>I clipped this and carried it around for almost a month. Bad news, though. I got fooled by my <i>watch<\/i> into thinking that yesterday was April 31 (I&#8217;m kinda dumb about some [arbitrary] stuff, you see), so I missed the boat, though I did figure out what&#8217;s what in time to post the announcement below. Any-who, here&#8217;s the scoop on trading up to a clean, quiet mower this year: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Mow Down Pollution 2003:<\/b> All 600 of the electric mowers we had available for trade were claimed within the first hour on a first-come, first-served basis. No further registrations will be accepted. Thank you for your interest in the Mow Down!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that great!? (I&#8217;m serious &#8211; I love that it only takes an hour for good people in SMUD&#8217;s service area to try to do the right thing.)<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if they had the option to get more than 600 from Black &#038; Decker, here are some interesting stats:<\/p>\n<p> SMUD services 1.2 Million people in a 900 square mile area, and Auburn isn&#8217;t even serviced by SMUD, so why have they made me think and talk about this for the last month?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMUD (Sacramento Metropolitan Utility District) had an offer to trade in your gas powered lawnmower for a rechargeable electric one that they advertised in the paper about a month ago &#8211; you bring them your old mower, and they give you a $469 mower for $225. I clipped this and carried it around for almost &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/02\/430\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}