{"id":7678,"date":"2014-06-21T22:39:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T03:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7678"},"modified":"2016-09-07T20:45:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T01:45:36","slug":"off-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7678","title":{"rendered":"Off Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0232\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5478\/14452188356_8b9d93d731.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5478\/14452188356_8b9d93d731_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0232\" \/><\/a>Sometimes the universe works in mysterious ways. Merely days after we learned that our family was chosen for an off-grid television show (we&#8217;re filming the pilot!) I picked up the Wall Street Journal and this caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p>I am so intrigued by this lifestyle and the many reasons people choose to live off the power grid: to be more self-sufficient, to be more eco-friendly, to be more independent from the government, etc. My fascination grows as the days go by quickly and we face the unknown. Luckily, we&#8217;re about to find out what it&#8217;s really like. I can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p><em>P.s. &#8212; Read the Wall Street Journal article <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/off-the-grid-homes-get-glamorous-1403221337?KEYWORDS=off+grid\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>* I wish I could say more about the show, but we are about to sign off on the nondisclosure paperwork, so I have to leave it at that&#8230; after all is said and done I hope to receive permission to blog about our experiences doing the show. Sorry to leave you hanging!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the universe works in mysterious ways. Merely days after we learned that our family was chosen for an off-grid television show (we&#8217;re filming the pilot!) I picked up the Wall Street Journal and this caught my eye. I am so intrigued by this lifestyle and the many reasons people choose to live off the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Off Grid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,188],"tags":[74,173,155,54],"class_list":["post-7678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-living","category-travel","tag-adventures","tag-green-living","tag-off-grid","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7678"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7687,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions\/7687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}