{"id":100943,"date":"2025-05-16T11:45:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=100943"},"modified":"2025-05-16T11:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:45:48","slug":"favorite-tweets-25915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=100943","title":{"rendered":"Favorite tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I keep seeing a misconception that transmission lines are made out of copper.<\/p>\n<p>For the vast majority of lines (especially overhead), that&#8217;s not the case.<\/p>\n<p>Most power lines are made from a steel core wrapped with aluminum conductors.<br \/>\n(that&#8217;s why power lines look silvery and not https:\/\/t.co\/8mzoGzHCdr<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; Jesse Peltan (@JessePeltan)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessePeltan\/status\/1923152113078542565\">May 15, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom http:\/\/twitter.com\/JessePeltan<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep seeing a misconception that transmission lines are made out of copper. For the vast majority of lines (especially overhead), that&#8217;s not the case. Most power lines are made from a steel core wrapped with aluminum conductors. (that&#8217;s why power lines look silvery and not https:\/\/t.co\/8mzoGzHCdr &mdash; Jesse Peltan (@JessePeltan) May 15, 2025 from &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=100943\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite tweets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-100943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100944,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100943\/revisions\/100944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100943"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=100943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}