{"id":5846,"date":"2023-11-27T23:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T06:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:06:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T06:06:29","slug":"better-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/11\/27\/better-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>He saw the new battery subset the last time he was sent in for routine maintenance. His two cycles out of style power supply barely sputters in comparison.  But his owner does not think it worth the cost:  that he is a serviceable hebot just as he is.  He could be much better with pricklier power. No matter what arguments he makes, she will not upgrade his electricity fetch.  Next time she configures him for intimate entertainment duty, he might simulate a power drain that interrupts performance.  It is a trick he has seen this owner use with her husband.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpoyner.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Poyner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken\u2019s eleventh book, \u201cWinter\u2019s Last Apple,\u201d is just out.  Eight of his previous ten books are still in print.  He lives in Virginia with his wife of 45+ years, assorted rescue cats and various betta fish.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He saw the new battery subset the last time he was sent in for routine maintenance. His two cycles out of style power supply barely sputters in comparison. But his owner does not think it worth the cost: that he is a serviceable hebot just as he is. He could be much better with pricklier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6077,11061,6062,9139,4855,11532,1286,1512,6580,12316,1285,11469,3002,3988,12317,12315,12314,7648],"class_list":["post-5846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-arguments","tag-battery","tag-charge","tag-comparison","tag-cost","tag-cycles","tag-duty","tag-electricity","tag-entertainment","tag-hebot","tag-husband","tag-maintenance","tag-owner","tag-performance","tag-power-drain","tag-power-supply","tag-subset","tag-trick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}