{"id":1187,"date":"2010-01-01T19:27:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T03:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2010-01-01T19:27:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T03:27:45","slug":"tortoise-touche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/01\/tortoise-touche\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortoise touch\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks behind the rest of the media, <em>Fox News <\/em>has suddenly taken an interest in &#8211; solar power? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/01\/01\/rare-tortoises-stand-way-california-solar-energy-complex\/\">&#8220;On a strip of California&#8217;s Mojave Desert, two dozen rare tortoises could stand in the way of a sprawling solar-energy complex in a case that highlights mounting tensions between wilderness conservation and the nation&#8217;s quest for cleaner power.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least they got the most salient point &#8211; &#8220;The construction would come with a cost: Government scientists have concluded that more than 6 square miles of habitat for the federally threatened desert tortoise would be permanently lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before it&#8217;s over, the American Southwest is liable to resemble a scene out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/find?s=all&#038;q=blade+runner\">Blade Runner.<\/a> Or more likely, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082694\/\">Road Warrior.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What would <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Hayduke_(character)\">Hayduke do?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks behind the rest of the media, Fox News has suddenly taken an interest in &#8211; solar power? &#8220;On a strip of California&#8217;s Mojave Desert, two dozen rare tortoises could stand in the way of a sprawling solar-energy complex in a case that highlights mounting tensions between wilderness conservation and the nation&#8217;s quest for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}