{"id":1570,"date":"2013-05-29T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T00:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2013-05-29T19:35:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T00:35:33","slug":"when-lightbulbs-were-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"When Lightbulbs Were Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/971860_458955614191161_1855259670_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1571 alignleft\" alt=\"Free Lightbulbs at Detroit Edison\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/971860_458955614191161_1855259670_n-286x300.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/971860_458955614191161_1855259670_n-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/971860_458955614191161_1855259670_n-143x150.jpg 143w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/971860_458955614191161_1855259670_n.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRemember when you could exchange light bulbs for new ones, for free at Detroit Edison? They also repaired small appliances for a time.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit native Robbi Laker-Tall remembers how a lawsuit changed all that. &#8220;There was a hardware guy who claimed the free exchange impeded on sales (unfair competition) he sued &amp; won. Almost 100 years of a good thing came to an end.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when you could exchange light bulbs for new ones, for free at Detroit Edison? They also repaired small appliances for a time. Detroit native Robbi Laker-Tall remembers how a lawsuit changed all that. &#8220;There was a hardware guy who claimed the free exchange impeded on sales (unfair competition) he sued &amp; won. Almost 100 years of a good thing came to an end.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keener","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}