{"id":547931,"date":"2010-04-30T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83646"},"modified":"2010-04-30T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T16:01:41","slug":"florida-declares-state-of-emergency-as-oil-slick-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547931","title":{"rendered":"Florida Declares State of Emergency as Oil Slick Nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, making headlines this week for his abandonment of the Republican Party, has just announced a state of emergency in the state&#8217;s panhandle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The oil slick is generally moving in a northerly direction and threatens Florida&#8217;s coast,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Emergency-Deepwater-Horizon1.pdf\">executive order<\/a> (PDF) reads. &#8220;Oil continues to spill from the well as all efforts to stop the discharge have failed and may not succeed for an extended period of time.&#8221;<span id=\"more-83646\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The warning applies to the counties of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Bay and Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s move follows that of Louisiana, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/environment\/jan-june10\/oil1_04-29.html\" >declared<\/a> an emergency of its own yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, making headlines this week for his abandonment of the Republican Party, has just announced a state of emergency in the state&#8217;s panhandle. &#8220;The oil slick is generally moving in a northerly direction and threatens Florida&#8217;s coast,&#8221; the executive order (PDF) reads. &#8220;Oil continues to spill from the well as all efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}