{"id":153,"date":"2018-10-09T11:32:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T15:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2018-10-10T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:25:14","slug":"nc-man-traveling-to-florida-in-hopes-of-getting-moneys-worth-out-of-800-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/09\/nc-man-traveling-to-florida-in-hopes-of-getting-moneys-worth-out-of-800-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Man Traveling to Florida in Hopes of Getting Money&#8217;s Worth Out of $800 Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PITT COUNTY, NC<\/strong> With Hurricane Michael set to hit the Florida panhandle on Wednesday, Greenville resident Hal Jenkins has decided to travel to the area in hopes of getting his money&#8217;s worth out of an $800 generator he purchased in preparation for Hurricane Florence last month.<\/p>\n<p>Hal says &#8220;When Florence was headed our way, I reluctantly purchased an $800 generator, which was all Lowes had at the time. I lost my receipt, and now I&#8217;m stuck with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Greenville avoiding the brunt of the storm, Mr. Jenkins wasn&#8217;t able to use his generator at all.<\/p>\n<p>Hal&#8217;s plan is to haul the generator down to Florida, and hope that Michael causes some power outages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know anyone who lives down there.&#8221; Hal told us. &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll try to find someone in need of elecricity who will let me hook up the generator, maybe hang out and watch movies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jenkins is also considering charging an hourly rate for any outlets he&#8217;s not using, in order to recoup some of his expense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>PITT COUNTY, NC With Hurricane Michael set to hit the Florida panhandle on Wednesday, Greenville resident Hal Jenkins has decided to travel to the area <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/09\/nc-man-traveling-to-florida-in-hopes-of-getting-moneys-worth-out-of-800-generator\/\" title=\"NC Man Traveling to Florida in Hopes of Getting Money&#8217;s Worth Out of $800 Generator\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"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":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/093811_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9LAS7-2t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.febrilux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}