{"id":13650,"date":"2012-04-05T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13650"},"modified":"2016-09-17T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T18:00:12","slug":"feeling-sheepish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/feeling-sheepish\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Sheepish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent more time in the rig this evening, cleaning the study and getting ready for the next round of paint. I had a lot of vacuuming to do. So I plugged my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/hang-up-mini-wet-dry-shop-vac-review\">shop vac<\/a> into my new 120V outlet pleased that I could plug it directly into the wall and not have to run an extension cord from the bottom of the upper cabinet. Well, so much for my <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13630\">triumph over electricity<\/a>. The shop vac wouldn&#8217;t start.<\/p>\n<p>That was pretty much the proverbial straw for me regarding the work I&#8217;m trying to get done in the study. I&#8217;m just fed up with simple projects that take much longer than they should. I just about stormed out of the room when I saw something out of the corner of my eye.<\/p>\n<p>It was the lid for the electrical panel. It was open. And one of my breakers was off. Then I remembered. After I did my final tests yesterday, I turned the breaker off to get everything secured and the face plates on. I&#8217;d forgotten to turn it back on. I flipped it up and went back to the shop vac.<\/p>\n<p>Vroom! I vacuumed for a good 10 minutes and there were no sparks. I think my outlet is working just fine. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent more time in the rig this evening, cleaning the study and getting ready for the next round of paint. I had a lot of vacuuming to do. So I plugged my shop vac into my new 120V outlet pleased that I could plug it directly into the wall and not have to run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,6,1226,635,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}