{"id":94,"date":"2008-08-18T16:54:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T20:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noyeshallallen.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/18\/alternative-heat-burning-wood\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:54:46","slug":"alternative-heat-burning-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/alternative-heat-burning-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Heat: Burning Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising heating oil prices have Mainers thinking about the cold of winter in the middle of summer. Firewood supplies are scarce, and prices high, the <a href=\"http:\/\/pressherald.mainetoday.com\/story.php?id=203630&amp;ac=PHbiz\">newspaper reported last week<\/a>. Consumer advocates are warning about unscrupulous dealers and unsafe wood-burning practices. Even Gov. John Baldacci is using his <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.maine.gov\/news?sid=59925\">bully pulpit<\/a> to spread the word.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Noyes Hall &amp; Allen Insurance South Portland Maine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Maine insurance agents<\/a> and companies have been concerned for a few years about the prospect of\u00a0paying more <a title=\"Maine Home Insurance and Homeowners Insurance Quotes from Noyes Hall &amp; Allen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/personal-insurance-landing\/homeowners-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maine homeowners insurance<\/a> claims due to\u00a0fires caused by inexperienced woodstove operators. Presque Isle\u2019s MMG Insurance has some of the best material, from a <a title=\"Wood-burning stove safety brochure from MMG Insurance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mmgins.com\/Portals\/0\/PDFs\/woodburn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">two-page brochure<\/a>\u00a0(pdf) to a 13 page manifesto (available upon request).<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re thinking of burning wood, check them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising heating oil prices have Mainers thinking about the cold of winter in the middle of summer. Firewood supplies are scarce, and prices high, the newspaper reported last week. Consumer advocates are warning about unscrupulous dealers and unsafe wood-burning practices. Even Gov. John Baldacci is using his bully pulpit to spread the word. Maine insurance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,13,14,15,16,10],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-property-insurance-business-insurance","category-condo-insurance","category-homeowners-insurance","category-personal-insurance","category-renters-insurance","category-safety","category-trends","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4849,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noyeshallallen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}