{"id":1185,"date":"2007-04-17T22:35:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2009-07-17T16:18:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T06:18:37","slug":"1181-of-a-way-to-celebrate-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"[1181] Of a way to celebrate Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Day falls on April 22 every year and the next Earth Day is about five days away. Those that care should start things running by reading <em>The Power of Green<\/em> at the NYT:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One day Iraq, our post-9\/11 trauma and the divisiveness of the Bush years will all be behind us \u2014 and America will need, and want, to get its groove back. We will need to find a way to reknit America at home, reconnect America abroad and restore America to its natural place in the global order \u2014 as the beacon of progress, hope and inspiration. I have an idea how. It&#8217;s called &#8220;green.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/15\/magazine\/15green.t.html?pagewanted=1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Power of Green<\/em><\/a>. Thomas L. Friedman. NYT. April 15 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is possible of those of writing that shakes the green world. If I am not mistaken, the last writing of such importance was <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=534\"><em>The Death of Environmentalism<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article is pretty long. If you are interesting in watch a video on it instead, go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/video.on.nytimes.com\/?fr_story=46dd3d6fde496927d1d80e1120a79631b58bde60\" target=\"_blank\">video section of the NYT<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Day falls on April 22 every year and the next Earth Day is about five days away. Those that care should start things running by reading The Power of Green at the NYT: One day Iraq, our post-9\/11 trauma and the divisiveness of the Bush years will all be behind us \u2014 and America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,4,8,11],"tags":[282],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-liberty","category-politics-government","category-society","tag-earth-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4710,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/4710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}