{"id":1807,"date":"2018-11-03T17:57:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T17:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2018-11-03T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T18:03:59","slug":"taking-trees-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"Taking trees seriously&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed a Bluffton Village councilperson, Ben Stahl, who is the liaison \u00a0between council and the Tree Commission here. \u00a0In recent years, Bluffton has established an &#8220;Arboretum&#8221; with a wide variety of tree species. \u00a0In addition, the village participates in the Tree City USA Program, with, among other things, $2 per person from the village budget going to new tree planting projects, and such. Earlier in my cross-country research, we stopped in Nebraska City, Nebraska (home of Arbor Day Farm). \u00a0The town of 7,000 there was undertaking planting 10,000 new trees within a 10 year period. \u00a0The whole eastern half of America was essentially &#8220;clear cut.&#8221; \u00a0And, well, its time to replant some of this. \u00a0For more on this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/environment-ckji\">see our position paper on the Environment.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I interviewed a Bluffton Village councilperson, Ben Stahl, who is the liaison \u00a0between council and the Tree Commission here. \u00a0In recent years, Bluffton has established an &#8220;Arboretum&#8221; with a wide variety of tree species. \u00a0In addition, the village participates in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1807\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","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=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}