{"id":44903,"date":"2014-09-04T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/how-dry-they-are.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T18:38:12","slug":"how-dry-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/how-dry-they-are.html","title":{"rendered":"How Dry They Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t think we&#39;ve yet reached saturation on stunning before\/after California drought pictures. I hope not, at least, because, yeesh, this is remarkable (and remarkably bad).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/infocus\/2014\/09\/dramatic-photos-of-californias-historic-drought\/100804'><br \/>\n<img style='display:block;' src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/wMWo-ZnfseTEslf9bF-lHRJdiiw2tfMs1Se_Vyg6jc9n5_5nAxONN4_JxW-eSw_ZKE8Tjq2B4TR5KiIn8tsXSMGRVLYMYUkRZ29uRMgqHFc7trj82p78_AVpiWo=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\nDramatic Photos of California&#8217;s Historic Drought<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nAccording to the U\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/V1nzML5tUmD'>View on Google+<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t think we&#39;ve yet reached saturation on stunning before\/after California drought pictures. I hope not, at least, because, yeesh, this is remarkable (and remarkably bad). Dramatic Photos of California&#8217;s Historic Drought According to the U View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51281,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/28\/its-hard-to-fight-drought-when-we-pay-people-not-to.html","url_meta":{"origin":44903,"position":0},"title":"It&#039;s hard to fight drought when we pay people not to","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-May-15 11:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Federal agriculture subsidies are encouraging continuation of drought-unsustainable agriculture in the American West. 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