{"id":16598,"date":"2018-08-10T16:06:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=16598"},"modified":"2018-08-10T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T20:06:32","slug":"15-fires-burn-across-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/15-fires-burn-across-california\/","title":{"rendered":"15 fires burn across California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/resizer\/7JgJpr4QoyQIcgyHHl6TE3u4jgc=\/1200x0\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5b6dda89\/turbine\/la-lb-media-statewide-fires-aug10-20180810-113342\/900' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>California is literally burning up. This is really scary&#8230;and could easily be one of the biggest natural disasters in history. Science says it&#8217;s cyclical&#8230;a natural part of the environmental cycle, which is fine except that we humans have interrupted that cycle. By our prevention of forest fires we&#8217;ve actually set the stage for these huge, uncontrollable fires to burn up the decades of litter that has been collecting unburned.<br \/>\nOf course, the extremely hot and dry weather is the real cause&#8230;the spark&#8230; and while how much we have to do with that is a matter of some debate, one thing is pretty clear: we should do everything we can to help prevent our world from burning all the human parasites from it&#8217;s fragile, life giving skin.<br \/>\nCalifornia often leads America toward greener, more ecologically sound solutions&#8230;prayers to all who struggle against the fires and for ecologically sound public policy in the fight to do the right thing about #ClimateChange<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8217;15 fires burn across California&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-california-fires-blog-15-fires-burn-across-california-1533925157-htmlstory.html\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-california-fires-blog-15-fires-burn-across-california-1533925157-htmlstory.html<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is literally burning up. This is really scary&#8230;and could easily be one of the biggest natural disasters in history. Science says it&#8217;s cyclical&#8230;a natural part of the environmental cycle, which is fine except that we humans have interrupted that cycle. By our prevention of forest fires we&#8217;ve actually set the stage for these huge, [&hellip;]<\/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":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-16598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17392,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/chile-tests-floating-solar-power-island\/","url_meta":{"origin":16598,"position":0},"title":"Chile tests floating solar power island","date":"March 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Solar island...Chile. 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