{"id":14352,"date":"2017-10-10T12:42:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=14352"},"modified":"2017-10-10T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T16:42:17","slug":"the-lush-billion-tree-spectacle-of-chinas-great-green-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/the-lush-billion-tree-spectacle-of-chinas-great-green-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lush Billion-Tree Spectacle of China&#8217;s Great Green Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.wired.com\/photos\/59dba737f404345f8585a554\/191:100\/pass\/%C2%A9IAN%20TEH%20-%200019.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Let&#8217;s hope the Great Green Wall of China is more of a success at recovering parched and barren farmland than the Great Wall of China was at keeping Genghis Khan and the Mongols out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2wLC88y\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2wLC88y<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s hope the Great Green Wall of China is more of a success at recovering parched and barren farmland than the Great Wall of China was at keeping Genghis Khan and the Mongols out. http:\/\/bit.ly\/2wLC88y<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-14352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12345,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/geologists-on-the-impossible-logistics-of-the-1000-mile-great-wall-of-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":14352,"position":0},"title":"Geologists on the impossible logistics of the 1,000-mile Great Wall of Trump","date":"February 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Great Wall of China took 2000 years to build...and it failed to keep the barbarians out. 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