{"id":901,"date":"2009-11-08T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2009-11-08T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T14:32:00","slug":"alas-the-huarango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/08\/alas-the-huarango\/","title":{"rendered":"alas, the Huarango"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of the Peruvian huarango tree? Me either; until today. Turns out the huarango is one tough hombre, many of it&#8217;s individual members having outlived most civilizations. Kin to the mesquite tree, the huarango &#8220;can live over a millennium.&#8221; Or so sayeth the <em>New York Times<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, where there are huarangos, there are those pesky humanoids, the infamous <em>Homo erectus asphaltus<\/em>. And therein lies the rub. <\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Times<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/08\/world\/americas\/08peru.html?hpw\">&#8220;&#8230;.many Peruvians view the huarango as prime wood for charcoal to cook a signature chicken dish called \u201cpollo broaster.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, as most astute readers will already have guessed, the lovely huarango is in deep doo-doo: &#8220;only about 1 percent of the original huarango woodlands that once existed in the Peruvian desert remain, according to archaeologists and ecologists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Theoretical solutions abound, none of them leading anywhere near ecological sanity. Maybe, as part of the latest round of economic stimulus baloney, the Obama administration can send the Peruvians a few cargo planes full of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckyfriedchicken.com\/\">Kentucky Fried Chicken!<\/a> That should hold off the chainsaws for a couple of months. <\/p>\n<p>Moral to story: too many monkeys bad for zoo.<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of the Peruvian huarango tree? Me either; until today. Turns out the huarango is one tough hombre, many of it&#8217;s individual members having outlived most civilizations. Kin to the mesquite tree, the huarango &#8220;can live over a millennium.&#8221; Or so sayeth the New York Times. Of course, where there are huarangos, there are [&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-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","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=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}