{"id":1333,"date":"2007-12-16T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/12\/16\/windmill-inspiration\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T21:10:38","slug":"windmill-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/windmill-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"windmill inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrigadget.com\/2007\/12\/12\/william-kamkwamba-in-the-wall-street-journal\/\">AfriGadget<\/a> for over a year and <a href=\"http:\/\/williamkamkwamba.typepad.com\/\">William Kamkwamba<\/a> now for as long as they&#8217;ve been reporting about him, and he finally gets the recognition he deserves, with a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119742696302722641.html?mod=hps_us_pageone\">writeup in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> and online video:<\/p>\n<p>It might only power some light bulbs, a radio and a television set, but for a family that had none of those options before (you know, like light after dark), this shows that anything can be <em>hacked<\/em> and <em>rigged<\/em> to empower your surroundings and thus your <em>life!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following AfriGadget for over a year and William Kamkwamba now for as long as they&#8217;ve been reporting about him, and he finally gets the recognition he deserves, with a recent writeup in the Wall Street Journal and online video: It might only power some light bulbs, a radio and a television set, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[184,185],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-afrigadget","tag-windmill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-lv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}