{"id":524,"date":"2010-04-03T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2010\/04\/im_a_flashaholic\/"},"modified":"2011-12-31T23:33:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T04:33:11","slug":"im_a_flashaholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2010\/04\/im_a_flashaholic\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Flashaholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not just because I have too many flashlights now, or because I have done driver swaps, or gotten lithium-ion batteries. It is official now because at CandlePower Forums if you post over 100 messages your status goes from &#8220;Enlightened&#8221; (people with less than 20 posts are &#8220;Unenlightened&#8221;) to &#8220;Flashaholic&#8221;. The next step as far as I can tell is 500 posts when you just get an asterisk after Flashaholic.<\/p>\n<p>This started last May when I was at Fry&#8217;s and bought a LED bulb for my Versapak Snakelight, so not even a year ago. But I know so much more about flashlights now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"flashaholic.png\" src=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2010\/flashaholic.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"119\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not just because I have too many flashlights now, or because I have done driver swaps, or gotten lithium-ion batteries. It is official now because at CandlePower Forums if you post over 100 messages your status goes from &#8220;Enlightened&#8221; (people with less than 20 posts are &#8220;Unenlightened&#8221;) to &#8220;Flashaholic&#8221;. The next step as far &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2010\/04\/im_a_flashaholic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m a Flashaholic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}