{"id":8892,"date":"2016-09-02T19:33:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T23:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=8892"},"modified":"2016-09-02T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T23:33:13","slug":"boulder-commits-to-going-100-percent-renewable-thinkprogress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/boulder-commits-to-going-100-percent-renewable-thinkprogress\/","title":{"rendered":"Boulder Commits To Going 100 Percent Renewable \u2013 ThinkProgress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>This should be the standard for every city and community in the country. If one city can do it, we all can. Why are we accepting less than AWESOME? The more we convert to renewables, the sooner we have truly affordable energy to fuel REAL economic growth again. Cheap Energy = Economic Growth #MakeAmericaGrowAgain<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buff.ly\/2bWvsKg\">http:\/\/buff.ly\/2bWvsKg<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should be the standard for every city and community in the country. If one city can do it, we all can. Why are we accepting less than AWESOME? The more we convert to renewables, the sooner we have truly affordable energy to fuel REAL economic growth again. Cheap Energy = Economic Growth #MakeAmericaGrowAgain http:\/\/buff.ly\/2bWvsKg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-8892","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":9254,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/clean-energy-the-not-so-dirty-secret-to-global-economic-prosperity-huffington-post\/","url_meta":{"origin":8892,"position":0},"title":"Clean Energy: The Not-So-Dirty Secret to Global Economic Prosperity | Huffington Post","date":"September 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Alternative energies can drive a new economic revolution, and resultant reduction in the costs of energy will fuel that coming boom. 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