{"id":15877,"date":"2016-11-14T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15877"},"modified":"2016-11-14T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T13:15:14","slug":"american-fracking-claims-new-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/american-fracking-claims-new-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"American Fracking Claims New Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3933112\/New-Zealand-earthquake-Massive-6-3-magnitude-aftershock-hits-hours-7-8-earthquake-killed-two-people.html\" target=\"_new\">Residents forced to flee huge &#8216;wall of water&#8217; after earthquake causes major New Zealand river to break its banks &#8211; as ANOTHER huge tremor strikes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/6-2-magnitude-quake-shakes-northwestern-argentina-152417204.html\" target=\"_new\">6.2-magnitude quake shakes northwestern Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is probably <em>not<\/em> caused by new petroleum extraction techniques.  But in our memeified world of thinking, had they would be printed in text on a picture of devastation and passed around on social media as evidence for the dangers of fracking if they&#8217;d occurred in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The world and its processes, including climate, are very complicated, and mankind probably understands only a small portion of them (the good stuff from way back: The seasons change, you can grow grain in this soil, pomegranates in this region).  But our &#8220;thinking&#8221; as it is communicated is losing its capacity to transmit complexity and uncertainty and, dare I say it, a bit of wonder that doesn&#8217;t fit into 140 characters or a glance as someone scrolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents forced to flee huge &#8216;wall of water&#8217; after earthquake causes major New Zealand river to break its banks &#8211; as ANOTHER huge tremor strikes 6.2-magnitude quake shakes northwestern Argentina This is probably not caused by new petroleum extraction techniques. But in our memeified world of thinking, had they would be printed in text on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15878,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15877\/revisions\/15878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}