{"id":7883,"date":"2011-12-16T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=7883"},"modified":"2011-12-16T09:02:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T14:02:40","slug":"light-bulb-ban-repeal-a-slap-in-the-face-to-bulb-manufacturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2011\/12\/light-bulb-ban-repeal-a-slap-in-the-face-to-bulb-manufacturers\/","title":{"rendered":"Light bulb ban repeal a &#8216;slap in the face&#8217; to manufacturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And they deserve worse.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>About the <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2011\/12\/15\/breaking-light-bulb-ban-repealed\/\">imminent repeal of the incandescent light bulb ban<\/a>, <em>Environment and Energy Daily<\/em> reports,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blocking the standards effectively serves as a slap in the face to light bulb manufacturers, who have been working since 2007 to produce the new bulbs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But General Electric, Philips and Sylvania  \u2014 as well as giant retailers like Wal-Mart and Home Depot\u2014 deserve to be tarred-and-feathered for daring to force Americans into more expensive light bulbs for no good reason \u2014 a move which killed American jobs and <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2009\/05\/05\/green-lightbulbs-poison-chinese-workers\/\">poisoned Chinese workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they deserve worse.<\/p>\n","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-light-bulbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-239","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}