{"id":526505,"date":"2010-04-13T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/?p=19443"},"modified":"2010-04-13T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:44:19","slug":"running-toilet-sticks-michigan-woman-with-1247-water-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526505","title":{"rendered":"Running Toilet Sticks Michigan Woman with $1,247 Water Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/living\/2010\/04\/11\/mi.pricey.water.bill.wdiv?hpt=T2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19449\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/04\/water-bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/04\/water-bill.jpg\"><\/a>We&#8217;ve all done it: you have a extra toilet in the basement or in some other little-used area of the house. One day, it gets used and the toilet mechanism gets stuck. A few days later, you see the toilet was still running and you anticipate a higher-than-usual upcoming water bill. Maybe a few dollars &#8212; but, $1,274.07??<\/p>\n<p>Such is the case for a woman in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homes\/for_sale\/Redford-MI\/\">Redford, MI<\/a> who discovered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/living\/2010\/04\/11\/mi.pricey.water.bill.wdiv?hpt=T2\">toilet in her spare bathroom was on constant refill for a week<\/a>, resulting in a water bill 40 times higher than normal.<\/p>\n<p>Check those toilets!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(Photo courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/living\/2010\/04\/11\/mi.pricey.water.bill.wdiv?hpt=T2\">CNN<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ZillowBlog?a=pVmLlW8AWwM:gIM7Eg1mivk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ZillowBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ZillowBlog?a=pVmLlW8AWwM:gIM7Eg1mivk:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ZillowBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all done it: you have a extra toilet in the basement or in some other little-used area of the house. One day, it gets used and the toilet mechanism gets stuck. A few days later, you see the toilet was still running and you anticipate a higher-than-usual upcoming water bill. Maybe a few dollars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526505","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\/4253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}