{"id":23578,"date":"2011-03-02T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11260"},"modified":"2016-09-17T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T07:13:33","slug":"electric-blanket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/electric-blanket\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Blanket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I bought an inexpensive 12V electric blanket to see if it would make any difference in my overnight comfort level. I decided to start with a basic plug-in model before investing in a pricey warming pad with temperature controls and the like.<\/p>\n<p>The blanket arrived the day before last. I spread it out under my comforter and plugged it in, then went for a shower. Did the same thing last night. I unplugged before going to bed and climbed up into a toasty nest. What luxury! And even though the blanket was off all night, I remained snug and cozy.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m definitely going to want to invest in a proper warming pad at some point! I&#8217;m going to use this blanket for curling up in on chilly mornings instead of running the furnace. I wish I&#8217;d thought of getting such a device earlier on in my travels; the 6A draw is about half of that of my furnace, plus it doesn&#8217;t use up propane!<\/p>\n<p>To that end, I&#8217;m going to start adding 12V sockets at strategic points around the rig.<\/p>\n<p>This post foreshadows Miranda&#8217;s impending electrical makeover. Da da da dum. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I bought an inexpensive 12V electric blanket to see if it would make any difference in my overnight comfort level. I decided to start with a basic plug-in model before investing in a pricey warming pad with temperature controls and the like. The blanket arrived the day before last. I spread it out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1070,635,5,3,16,998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blaine","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","category-washingon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578","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=23578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}