{"id":9254,"date":"2016-09-23T14:04:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=9254"},"modified":"2016-09-23T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:04:19","slug":"clean-energy-the-not-so-dirty-secret-to-global-economic-prosperity-huffington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/clean-energy-the-not-so-dirty-secret-to-global-economic-prosperity-huffington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Energy: The Not-So-Dirty Secret to Global Economic Prosperity | Huffington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/4626606\/images\/o-PARIS-facebook.jpg?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Alternative energies can drive a new economic revolution, and resultant reduction in the costs of energy will fuel that coming boom. It&#8217;s really just a matter of how long we decide to allow Exxon and BP to decide our common fate, instead of pushing them either into the future or out of the picture. ~jg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/huff.to\/2d6oAh7\">http:\/\/huff.to\/2d6oAh7<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative energies can drive a new economic revolution, and resultant reduction in the costs of energy will fuel that coming boom. It&#8217;s really just a matter of how long we decide to allow Exxon and BP to decide our common fate, instead of pushing them either into the future or out of the picture. ~jg [&hellip;]<\/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-9254","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":14398,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/the-economic-case-for-rebuilding-puerto-ricos-power-grid-with-solar-energy\/","url_meta":{"origin":9254,"position":0},"title":"The economic case for rebuilding Puerto Rico&#8217;s power grid with solar energy","date":"October 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We should rebuild ALL of our grid, to include power storage and alternative energy sources. 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