{"id":4616,"date":"2012-02-23T16:26:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2023-04-29T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T15:14:12","slug":"side-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/side-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Side benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some people work in offices and make lots of money. Others work outside, oblivious to the world going on around them. A fortunate few, myself included, get to work in many different environments, and appreciate them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week or so ago, at the end of the day, I was carrying my tool bag back to the truck and was surprised to see this view:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WRKI-view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WRKI-view-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"View looking west from the WRKI transmitter site, Brookfield, CT\" class=\"wp-image-4628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WRKI-view-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WRKI-view-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WRKI-view-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WRKI-view-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WRKI-view.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">View looking west from the WRKI transmitter site, Brookfield, CT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The picture really does not do justice. A much wider view is required to get the full effect.&nbsp; It looked like the sky was on fire, something out of a science fiction movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then again, yesterday, I spent the day in a dank, smelly basement tracing out telephone wires.&nbsp; In the end, it all evens out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people work in offices and make lots of money. Others work outside, oblivious to the world going on around them. A fortunate few, myself included, get to work in many different environments, and appreciate them all. A week or so ago, at the end of the day, I was carrying my tool bag back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/side-benefits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Side benefits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11642,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/11642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}