{"id":12891,"date":"2011-10-27T10:55:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T17:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/?p=12891"},"modified":"2012-05-15T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T20:08:05","slug":"taking-charge-living-off-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/taking-charge-living-off-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Charge: Living Off-Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living \u201coff the grid\u201d may conjure images of counter-culture hippies or the old-fashioned ways of the Amish, but there\u2019s a growing movement of people who generate their own electricity and live in the lap of luxury without ever paying a utility bill.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Correspondent Patty Kim meets some of the estimated 180,000 families across North America using clean energy technology to become self-sufficient and enjoy all the comforts of modern life, off the grid.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27769789?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/27769789\" class=\"broken_link\">Taking Charge: Living Off-Grid<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/energynow\" class=\"broken_link\">Energy NOW<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\" class=\"broken_link\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living \u201coff the grid\u201d may conjure images of counter-culture hippies or the old-fashioned ways of the Amish, but there\u2019s a growing movement of people who generate their own electricity and live in the lap of luxury without ever paying a utility bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homesteading","category-video"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}