{"id":36265,"date":"2009-09-21T10:48:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T10:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=36265"},"modified":"2009-09-24T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T15:05:15","slug":"conned-by-con-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/09\/conned-by-con-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Conned by Con Edison?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a tiny, Jr 1BR (read: glorified alcove studio) in Prospect Heights and I&#8217;m getting ridiculous bills from Con Edison and National Grid. Seriously, how does boiling water once a week translate into $123 worth of cooking gas in 2 months? I&#8217;ve talked to my absentee landlady, who gets slapped with ridiculous bills every so often as well, but she doesn&#8217;t know what to do about it either. Some woman came in to read the meter months ago, but that hasn&#8217;t helped. I&#8217;ve called both Con Edison and National Grid about this but they were (perhaps unsurprisingly) unhelpful. Would anyone be able to give me some advice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a tiny, Jr 1BR (read: glorified alcove studio) in Prospect Heights and I&#8217;m getting ridiculous bills from Con Edison and National Grid. Seriously, how does boiling water once a week translate into $123 worth of cooking gas in 2 months? I&#8217;ve talked to my absentee landlady, who gets slapped with ridiculous bills&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37895,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-36265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utilities"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/09\/conned-by-con-e\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Conned by Con Edison?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/09\/conned-by-con-e\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/09\/conned-by-con-e\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Utilities","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ettay"}],"creator":["ettay"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-09-21T10:48:54Z","datePublished":"2009-09-21T10:48:54Z","dateModified":"2009-09-24T15:05:15Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Conned by Con Edison?\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/conned-by-con-e\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2009\\\/09\\\/conned-by-con-e\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Utilities\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"ettay\"}],\"creator\":[\"ettay\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Forum Archive\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2009-09-21T10:48:54Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-09-21T10:48:54Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-09-24T15:05:15Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/brownstoner.com\/p.js"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","print_hed":"","photo_gallery":[],"print_subhed":"","print_slug":"","syndication_thumb":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37895"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36265"},{"taxonomy":"districts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/districts?post=36265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}