{"id":1706,"date":"2013-02-20T15:35:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2013-02-20T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:35:32","slug":"goodby-grass-hello-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/goodby-grass-hello-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodby grass; hello corn&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A college study indicates the high price of corn and soybeans, thanks to the bio-fuel demand, is robbing us of grass and wetlands at an alarming rate.\u00a0 The research was by a team from South Dakota State University and it says we&#8217;re losing grasslands at the rate of five per cent a year.<\/p>\n<p>That is a major ecological threat and, according to the scientists, it would take us decades to recover from the setback to natural carbon sequestration, even if we wanted to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2013\/02\/13\/1215404110.short?rss=1\">http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2013\/02\/13\/1215404110.short?rss=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is all the handiwork of Big Government and Big Ag, of course.\u00a0 As a blogger often puts it:\u00a0 &#8220;the country is in the very best of hands&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A college study indicates the high price of corn and soybeans, thanks to the bio-fuel demand, is robbing us of grass and wetlands at an alarming rate.\u00a0 The research was by a team from South Dakota State University and it says we&#8217;re losing grasslands at the rate of five per cent a year. That is a major ecological threat and, according to the scientists, it would take us decades to recover from the setback to natural carbon sequestration, even if we wanted to. http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2013\/02\/13\/1215404110.short?rss=1 This is all the handiwork of Big Government and Big Ag, of course.\u00a0 As a blogger often puts it:\u00a0 &#8220;the country is in the very best of hands&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-government"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}