{"id":1036,"date":"2010-06-11T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=475"},"modified":"2010-06-11T04:10:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T04:10:14","slug":"its-time-we-reasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"…it’s time we reasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were \u00a0in the Spanish Peaks Country in southern Colorado over the weekend. \u00a0 While there, I stopped at the Walsenburg Mining Museum<\/em>. \u00a0 At the museum, George Ree told me coal mining started in these parts in 1878 and one of the mines, the Walsen Mine, covered a phenomenal 157 miles. \u00a0 Over the years, 69 seperate mines were established in the area, yielding some 75 million tons of coal. \u00a0 (Colorado is \u00a07th in the nation in coal reserves.) \u00a0 As I mentioned in the last entry, once coal was discovered it was mined at breakneck speed — leaving in it’s wake massive plumes of global warming gasses. \u00a0 And now, although there’s very little mining going on in southern Colorado, we’re blowing the tops off mountains in West Virginia to get to more. \u00a0 It’s time we reasses all this, in a major<\/em> \u00a0 way. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0Bumper sticker sighting in Walsenburg, Colorado: \u00a0 It’s apparent our technology is now \u00a0outpacing our humanity.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were \u00a0in the Spanish Peaks Country in southern Colorado over the weekend. \u00a0 While there, I stopped at the Walsenburg Mining Museum. \u00a0 At the museum, George Ree told me coal mining started in these parts in 1878 and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}