{"id":552,"date":"2001-01-31T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-31T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2020-08-19T00:16:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T00:16:41","slug":"moving-a-power-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2001\/01\/31\/moving-a-power-plug\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving a power plug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I decided to spend a little time moving a power outlet today from one side of a wall to the other. Basically the scenario is this: we have a power outlet on the wall and a closet on the other side. We wanted the power plug to be in the closet, rather than on the outer wall. (We have a TV in the closet, ok?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, using graph paper, simple trigonometry and lots of measuring, I figured out whereabouts on the inside wall to cut the hole in the drywall so that I could reach through with my fingers and grab the power cable going to the box on the other side of the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having cut the whole in almost the right place, it&#8217;s going to be a little tricker than I&#8217;d hoped, but still within acceptable tolerances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I have the plug hanging out of the wall but I haven&#8217;t yet gone through the process of finding out which circuit breaker needs to be thrown in order to make the change. We have two breakers called &#8220;beds&#8221; and one of them might be the right one. Seeing as we have numerous computers and synths hanging off most of the power outlets, I gotta be careful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like the end of the month &#8211; time to get CityDesk to generate a monthly summary and update the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to spend a little time moving a power outlet today from one side of a wall to the other. Basically the scenario is this: we have a power outlet on the wall and a closet on the other side. We wanted the power plug to be in the closet, rather than on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}