{"id":277271,"date":"2010-02-04T13:10:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001457"},"modified":"2010-02-04T13:11:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:11:06","slug":"light-bulbs-promises-are-true-only-where-nighttime-lasts-three-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277271","title":{"rendered":"Light Bulb&#8217;s Promises Are True Only Where Nighttime Lasts Three Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/2224945650_a2521a89bc_m-thumb-240x173-36659.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/PhillipsBack_1-thumb-560x329-36658.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/PhillipsFront-thumb-350x526-36657.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Rick bought a light bulb at Home Depot that turned into more of a geography test. The question it poses: is there anywhere in the world that has an average of three hours of darkness year-round? The answer: no. Which means that the claims on the front of this light bulb package contradict each other.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi, I purchased this Phillips CFL bulb at Home Depot. It says on the front, &#8220;Energy Saver Automatic Postlight&#8221; &#8220;Turns on at Dusk, off at Dawn&#8221; and &#8220;Last 7 Years (see back for details)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/PhillipsFront-36657.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/PhillipsFront-36657.html','popup','width=350,height=526,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/PhillipsFront-thumb-200x300-36657.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" alt=\"PhillipsFront.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the back it says &#8220;based on 3 hours average use per day\/7 days per week&#8221;. I&#8217;d like Phillips to show me on a map a place where nighttime is an average of 3 hours per day. Please!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 3 hours use claim is perfectly rational for an outdoor light that doesn&#8217;t use its awesome photosensor abilities as a selling point. Either the bulb lasts 7 years, or you&#8217;re supposed to leave it on all night. Pick a side, Philips.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PhillipsBack_1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/04\/PhillipsBack_1.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"329\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick bought a light bulb at Home Depot that turned into more of a geography test. The question it poses: is there anywhere in the world that has an average of three hours of darkness year-round? The answer: no. Which means that the claims on the front of this light bulb package contradict each other. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}