{"id":512,"date":"2006-05-31T12:46:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=506"},"modified":"2006-05-31T12:46:51","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T12:46:51","slug":"53106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"5\/31\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <em>USA Today <\/em>started an eye-opening series on the reality of global warming.  A few weeks ago, the <em>Cleveland Plain Dealer <\/em>did an article on Case Western Reserve University professor Ted Steinberg and his new book:  <em>American Green:  The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn<\/em>.  Some statistics in this were just as eye opening as the <em>USA Today <\/em>piece.  For instance:  A car would have to drive at 30 mph for 7,700 miles to create as many polluting hydrocarbon emissions as using a gas powered leaf blower for half an hour (you read that right).  [Good argument for going back to rakes, huh.]  Americans spend <em>$40 billion <\/em>on lawn care each year, more than the gross domestic product of Vietnam.  [Are we nuts?]  And this isn&#8217;t even mentioning the exorbitant amount of global warming gases being spewed by conventional (non-emission controlled) lawn mowers.  [Call me &#8220;retro,&#8221; but remember those old, non-engine push mowers?  I just used one to cut the grass Tuesday.]   And as far as the gas powered weed wackers?  Does anyone remember (dare I say) sickles?&#8230; <strong>Some &#8220;average Joe&#8221; common sense:<\/strong>  If we don&#8217;t want global warming &#8212; then we have to stop doing stuff that causes global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday USA Today started an eye-opening series on the reality of global warming. A few weeks ago, the Cleveland Plain Dealer did an article on Case Western Reserve University professor Ted Steinberg and his new book: American Green: The Obsessive <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=512\"><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-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}