{"id":12684,"date":"2017-03-07T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=12684"},"modified":"2017-03-07T17:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:00:59","slug":"before-the-epa-our-cities-looked-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/before-the-epa-our-cities-looked-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Before The EPA, Our Cities Looked Like This"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.countercurrentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/EPA.jpg?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>How soon we forget. I place blame squarely on my generation, because I&#8217;m old enough to remember water and air so foul and full of pollutants, that it seemed like we were on the verge of poisoning ourselves right into extinction. That&#8217;s where letting business regulate itself got us. Then created the EPA to protect us from ourselves, and we started cleaning things up.<br \/>\nWe cannot backtrack. We must keep making progress. #Further<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2n1TjhM\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2n1TjhM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How soon we forget. I place blame squarely on my generation, because I&#8217;m old enough to remember water and air so foul and full of pollutants, that it seemed like we were on the verge of poisoning ourselves right into extinction. That&#8217;s where letting business regulate itself got us. 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