{"id":373,"date":"2017-02-04T05:17:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T10:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/?p=373"},"modified":"2017-02-04T05:17:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T10:17:33","slug":"water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/2017\/02\/04\/water\/","title":{"rendered":"Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/mzank\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_0938.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mzank\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_0938-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0938\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_0938-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_0938-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The future of water is a big issue, we\u2019ve been told. This entire area (Western Ghats), should be verdant but the grassland surrounding the tea plantations is brown and periodically burns. People who didn\u2019t need to do so in the past are digging wells. The water level in the great Idukki dam area, the major source of electricity in this region, is low. People are worried and talk about climate change. No hoax here. Just a fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The future of water is a big issue, we\u2019ve been told. This entire area (Western Ghats), should be verdant but the grassland surrounding the tea plantations is brown and periodically burns. People who didn\u2019t need to do so in the past are digging wells. The water level in the great Idukki dam area, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}