{"id":45134,"date":"2014-09-11T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T23:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/the-frayed-boot-of-louisiana.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T11:37:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T18:37:56","slug":"the-frayed-boot-of-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/the-frayed-boot-of-louisiana.html","title":{"rendered":"The Frayed Boot of Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lengthy, fascinating, and terrifying essay on the growing inaccuracy of the traditional Louisiana &quot;boot&quot; shape, as land sinks from petrochemical extraction, shoreline wetlands wash away due to levees, and the water level rises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/louisiana-loses-its-boot-b55b3bd52d1e'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/vAaiyp0EDYALdojwTgSw3V31ISM_MKqbQ-19lztFruTMGXZHb_mNAft7D1XCLFLfznzy3gY1tRzKj3PnUuhITORoyp18V7Kh_sYpgWwCT55VKoP08slowDQpwWk=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/louisiana-loses-its-boot-b55b3bd52d1e'>Louisiana Loses Its Boot<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe boot-shaped state isn&rsquo;t shaped like that anymore. So, we revised its iconic outline to reflect the truth about a sin&hellip;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/6VYTGvUu7cB'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lengthy, fascinating, and terrifying essay on the growing inaccuracy of the traditional Louisiana &quot;boot&quot; shape, as land sinks from petrochemical extraction, shoreline wetlands wash away due to levees, and the water level rises. Louisiana Loses Its Boot The boot-shaped state isn&rsquo;t shaped like that anymore. So, we revised its iconic outline to reflect the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/the-frayed-boot-of-louisiana.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Frayed Boot of Louisiana&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[106,748,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17238,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/tweets-from-2010-04-28.html","url_meta":{"origin":45134,"position":0},"title":"Tweets from 2010-04-28","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Apr-10 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Fended off the railroad bulls with a little something from my wallet. # Outlook appears to be creaking along okay on my computer. 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