{"id":959,"date":"2009-11-14T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=397"},"modified":"2009-11-14T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T16:30:05","slug":"lunar-lunacy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Lunacy 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Front page stories in newspapers across the country scream that, <em>at last<\/em>: <strong>Water Has Been Found On The Moon!<\/strong> \u00a0 I mean, there&#8217;s water in India. \u00a0 And there&#8217;s water in Uganda. \u00a0 And there&#8217;s water in El Salvador&#8230; \u00a0 A lot of it unsafe to drink. \u00a0 But the poor are drinking it, and dying. \u00a0 And then there&#8217;s all that polluted water in the Great Lakes. \u00a0 And what about not enough water in southern California? \u00a0 And&#8230; Yet we&#8217;re spending <em>billions<\/em> of dollars on this moon thing. \u00a0 Billions of dollars that could be spent setting up water purification systems in the Third World, better water filtration plants for the Great Lakes, and water pipeline conduits into Southern California. \u00a0 All on <em>this<\/em> planet. \u00a0 Have we become so devoid of common sense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Front page stories in newspapers across the country scream that, at last: Water Has Been Found On The Moon! \u00a0 I mean, there&#8217;s water in India. \u00a0 And there&#8217;s water in Uganda. \u00a0 And there&#8217;s water in El Salvador&#8230; \u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=959\"><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-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","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=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}