{"id":286,"date":"2007-10-27T16:15:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T16:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2007-11-14T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T16:57:00","slug":"drought-where-it-shouldnt-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/drought-where-it-shouldnt-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought where it shouldn&#8217;t be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2007\/usdrought20071027.gif?resize=275%2C336\" align=\"right\" height=\"336\" width=\"275\" \/>It&#8217;s not just California that is feeling the heat.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/na\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10024708\">US south east is experiencing extreme lack of rain<\/a> that normally occurs once or twice a century.\u00a0 During October, adding to calls for limiting water use, Georgia&#8217;s governor sued to stop teh Army draining water for use in Alabama and Florida.\u00a0 If the drought continues, drinking water supplies will be jeopardised.\u00a0 If there is a silver lining to this (virtual) cloud, it might be that concerns over climate change will be adopted by the wider public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just California that is feeling the heat.\u00a0 The US south east is experiencing extreme lack of rain that normally occurs once or twice a century.\u00a0 During October, adding to calls for limiting water use, Georgia&#8217;s governor sued to stop teh Army draining water for use in Alabama and Florida.\u00a0 If the drought continues, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/drought-where-it-shouldnt-be\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drought where it shouldn&#8217;t be<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}