{"id":128,"date":"2009-08-20T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T22:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2009-08-20T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T22:28:44","slug":"128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/128\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Rice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever notice how most folks think backwards? They begin with the answer to a question that wouldn&#8217;t be a question except that the answer makes it one. Or something  like that. <\/p>\n<p>For example: NPR has a piece about genetically engineered rice that kicks off like this &#8211; &#8220;Scientists are racing to develop strains of &#8216;super rice&#8217; that can prevent the return of deadly famines to Asia. Researchers say tough, highly productive rice plants offer the best hope for feeding a world population that will reach 9 billion by 2050.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cool, huh? Super rice, coming soon to a paddy near you! <\/p>\n<p>As an experiment, flip the paragraph around and look at its mirror image. The obvious question that pops up is: &#8220;Why in hell do we want 9 billion <em>Homo erectus asphaltus<\/em> running loose on little ole planet Earth?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Socrates Wilson says: Deal with root causes first, then see what&#8217;s left to solve. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=112067842\">Pass the salt. <\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever notice how most folks think backwards? They begin with the answer to a question that wouldn&#8217;t be a question except that the answer makes it one. Or something like that. For example: NPR has a piece about genetically engineered rice that kicks off like this &#8211; &#8220;Scientists are racing to develop strains of &#8216;super [&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-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}