{"id":10664,"date":"2014-03-03T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2014-03-03T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:17:59","slug":"changing-the-light-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/changing-the-light-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the Light Bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have learned a secret for changing the light bulbs in those huge chandeliers that hang over the grand stairway of big houses.  All you have to do is install a winch directly above the fixture and wire the light with a plug.  You can then disconnect the electrical and gently lower it down to a comfortable level to replace the bulbs, or to clean it.  Here is an example of such a system from a local home that I recently toured.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-03-Winch.jpg\" alt=\"Winch\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-03-Winch.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-03-Winch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014-02-03-Winch-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have learned a secret for changing the light bulbs in those huge chandeliers that hang over the grand stairway of big houses. All you have to do is install a winch directly above the fixture and wire the light with a plug. You can then disconnect the electrical and gently lower it down to a comfortable level to replace the bulbs, or to clean it. Here is an example of such a system from<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/changing-the-light-bulbs\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1575,1579],"tags":[1732,1781,1867,1919,1970,2220,4017,3867,2712,3868],"class_list":["post-10664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun","category-home-maintenance","tag-attic","tag-blog","tag-chandelier","tag-connecticut","tag-ct","tag-greater-hartford","tag-hartford","tag-light-bulb","tag-real-estate","tag-winch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10667,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions\/10667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}