{"id":25345,"date":"2018-03-21T16:10:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25345"},"modified":"2018-03-21T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:10:26","slug":"the-battle-for-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/03\/21\/the-battle-for-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept has the Naomi Klein article <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/03\/20\/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-recovery\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Ricans and Ultrarich \u201cPuertopians\u201d Are Locked in a Pitched Struggle Over How to Remake the Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHe had long warned of the risks associated with Puerto Rico\u2019s overwhelming dependence on imported fossil fuels and centralized power generation: One big storm, he had cautioned, could knock out the whole grid \u2014 especially after decades of laying off skilled electrical workers and letting maintenance lapse.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasizing the often ignored benefits of decentralization. Libertarians should be all for this benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept has the Naomi Klein article The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Ricans and Ultrarich \u201cPuertopians\u201d Are Locked in a Pitched Struggle Over How to Remake the Island. He had long warned of the risks associated with Puerto Rico\u2019s overwhelming dependence on imported fossil fuels and centralized power generation: One big storm, he had cautioned, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25346,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345\/revisions\/25346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}