{"id":1709,"date":"2023-09-01T04:20:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T04:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:17","slug":"power-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/01\/power-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Power UP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/surge.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1711\" style=\"width:269px;height:179px\" width=\"269\" height=\"179\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">     These are electric times. Some are Cowboys while others are lost on the world grid. Elon Musk is now the unofficial designated Star Command overlord&#8230;&#8230;(or is that too much?)  <br>     We still need to make the combustion engine more economical&#8230;simple as that.  The EV&#8217;s of today have a place they are carving out, however,&#8230;.time vs. savings seem to be the arc. <br><br>Artificial Intelligence is as corny as it sounds&#8230;&#8230;kinda makes you want to crack open that crypto wallet and buy you some.  {Bitcoin being the first binary math solving joke.}   People literally making&#8230;or rather trying to make, something out of nothing. Bitcoin only has 21 million &#8220;coins&#8221;&#8230;no more. That alone, in itself should take the steam out for a lot of people&#8230;&#8230;but, common sense on on hiatus somewhere in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">     Gas and electric&#8230;.crypto and cash. The twentieth century moves to the twenty-first. But not so fast&#8230;..you need a vaccine and a mask.<br><br>Crypto&#8230;..Egos are swiftly spent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are electric times. Some are Cowboys while others are lost on the world grid. Elon Musk is now the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/power-surge.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}