{"id":583407,"date":"2010-05-27T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011968026_oilspill.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-05-27T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:02:28","slug":"oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/583407","title":{"rendered":"Oil spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Toxins for the Fourth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, The Times:<\/p>\n<p>After reading \u201cPuget Sound\u2019s slow oil spill\u201d [Opinion, May 20], I thought how the Northwest has one of the most concerned and environmentally devoted populations in the country, except on the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone noticed how the awareness our actions take a vacation every July? How many thousands of tons of toxic byproducts do we send into our local waters in the form of incendiary fireworks? Residents all along the waterfront spend hours doing this with abandon.<\/p>\n<p>What percentage of the yearly toxins that we send into our waters occurs on our nation\u2019s birthday? Think about that.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Steven Short, Mercer Island<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toxins for the Fourth Editor, The Times: After reading \u201cPuget Sound\u2019s slow oil spill\u201d [Opinion, May 20], I thought how the Northwest has one of the most concerned and environmentally devoted populations in the country, except on the Fourth of July. Has anyone noticed how the awareness our actions take a vacation every July? How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583407","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\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}