{"id":3113,"date":"2015-03-30T08:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T12:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2015-03-30T08:05:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T12:05:05","slug":"dinner-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/dinner-with-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"DINNER WITH FRIENDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When teaching in Virginia recently, the Evil Princess and I were able to have dinner with Jeff Yago and his lovely wife Sharon.\u00a0 Jeff and I have both been writing for Backwoods Home magazine since the latter 1990s. \u00a0Jeff\u2019s specialty is energy, and has long been the magazine\u2019s resident expert on all things related to solar power. Here\u2019s his article in the current issue: <a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/articles2\/yago152.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/articles2\/yago152.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jeff is also an authority on prepping, and does seminars on the topic as well as all his work in the solar area.\u00a0 Talking shop was interesting; turns out that we have different writing habits.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing how many writers do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Take a look at Jeff\u2019s work in the archives of the Backwoods Home website, and his retired blog, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/EnergyQuestions\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/EnergyQuestions\/<\/a>.\u00a0 Deep knowledge and meticulous research, combined with a writing style that gets the material across clearly.\u00a0 Jeff is one of the great resources in the Backwoods Home group, and it\u2019s always a pleasure to be on a team with professionals like him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mas_Jeff.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3114 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mas_Jeff.jpg\" alt=\"Mas_Jeff\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mas_Jeff.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mas_Jeff-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mas_Jeff-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mas_Jeff-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When teaching in Virginia recently, the Evil Princess and I were able to have dinner with Jeff Yago and his lovely wife Sharon.\u00a0 Jeff and I have both been writing for Backwoods Home magazine since the latter 1990s. \u00a0Jeff\u2019s specialty is energy, and has long been the magazine\u2019s resident expert on all things related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}