{"id":807,"date":"2011-06-07T20:53:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=807"},"modified":"2011-06-07T20:53:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:53:28","slug":"arizona-is-burning-and-were-breathing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/06\/07\/arizona-is-burning-and-were-breathing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Is Burning, and We&#039;re Breathing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke from the Bear Wallow Fire in Arizona\u2014several hundred miles away but over 233,000 acres in size\u2014is so thick here we can&#8217;t see the valley floor from our hillside home, just a mile or so away. We&#8217;re all coughing and throats are scratchy. I&#8217;m reading James Hansen&#8217;s <em>Storms of My Grandchildren<\/em>, about global warming, and it seems that it&#8217;s here. Meanwhile every Republican who ever said anything in support of mitigating climate change is having to backtrack and now deny it, just to court the Conservative-Stupid Vote, the Know Nothing Party rises again. Here&#8217;s the NY Times report about the Arizona fire this morning:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/08\/us\/08wildfires.html?_r=1&#038;hp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke from the Bear Wallow Fire in Arizona\u2014several hundred miles away but over 233,000 acres in size\u2014is so thick here we can&#8217;t see the valley floor from our hillside home, just a mile or so away. We&#8217;re all coughing and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/06\/07\/arizona-is-burning-and-were-breathing-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-climate-change","category-the-west"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}