{"id":113,"date":"2008-06-13T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/wpblog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2018-03-03T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T20:23:45","slug":"oil-drilling-and-brain-dense-congress-critters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/oil-drilling-and-brain-dense-congress-critters\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Drilling and Brain-Dense Congress Critters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the places I visit daily is here <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indystar.com\/varvelblog\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blogs.indystar.com\/varvelblog<\/a> , a daily blog of a editorial cartoonist.<\/p>\n<p>This one made me chuckle <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indystar.com\/varvelblog\/archives\/2008\/06\/stubborn.html\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blogs.indystar.com\/varvelblog\/archives\/2008\/06\/stubborn.html<\/a> , until I sadly realized how true it is.<\/p>\n<p>I think that refusing to allow drilling of known domestic oil sources (and not allowing investigations of probably sources) is really stupid. Our congresscritters debate about carbon credits and complain about the price of gas, but don&#8217;t allow drilling on coastal waters.<\/p>\n<p>And then China is going to drill in the waters off of Cuba, while we don&#8217;t allow drilling off of the Florida coast.<\/p>\n<p><sigh><\/sigh><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the places I visit daily is here <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indystar.com\/varvelblog\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blogs.indystar.com\/varvelblog<\/a> , a daily blog of a editorial cartoonist.<\/p>\n<p>This one made me chuckle <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indystar.com\/varvelblog\/archives\/2008\/06\/stubborn.html\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blogs.indystar.com\/varvelblog\/archives\/2008\/06\/stubborn.html<\/a> , until I sadly realized how true it is.<\/p>\n<p>I think that refusing to allow drilling of known domestic oil sources (and not allowing investigations of probably sources) is really stupid. Our congresscritters debate about carbon credits and complain about the price of gas,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/oil-drilling-and-brain-dense-congress-critters\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Oil Drilling and Brain-Dense Congress Critters &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-saying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}