{"id":655,"date":"2010-06-21T19:02:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T23:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/?p=655"},"modified":"2010-06-21T21:30:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T01:30:44","slug":"when-natural-disasters-are-bad-enough-who-needs-oil-spills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/21\/when-natural-disasters-are-bad-enough-who-needs-oil-spills\/","title":{"rendered":"When Natural Disasters are Bad Enough who Needs Oil Spills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/atl_overview.gif\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/atl_overview.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-656\" title=\"Tropical outlook by National Hurricane Center\" src=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/atl_overview-300x187.gif\" alt=\"Tropical outlook by National Hurricane Center\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/atl_overview-300x187.gif 300w, http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/atl_overview-150x93.gif 150w, http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/atl_overview-400x249.gif 400w, http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/atl_overview.gif 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The National Hurricane Center is watching a tropical wave in the Caribbean Sea. This system could develop into a tropical storm and enter the Gulf of Mexico next week. The effects of any tropical storms or hurricanes on the oil eruption, gulf environment, capping efforts, and clean-up efforts are anyone\u2019s guess. Predicting the number of hurricanes is hardly an exact science, but published predictions for a hyper-active hurricane season are rattling nerves already exhausted by vacations lost, jobs lost, habitats lost, and lives lost.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricanes are just part of life, but the prevention of future oil spills can be accomplished with sensible, courageous decisions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Hands across the Sand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This<strong> Saturday,\u00a0June 26<\/strong>, all across the United States, Hands across the Sand events will take place.\u00a0Hands across the Sand is an event for people who want to say \u201cNo\u201d to off-shore drilling and \u201cYes\u201d to cleaner energy alternatives. It\u2019s not for everybody. But for those who support this message it is a collective opportunity to make their voices heard. If you agree with this message, please come, bring family and friends,\u00a0and make your voice heard!<\/p>\n<p>On Dauphin Island, people will begin gathering at the public beach around 11:00 AM and will join hands for 15 minutes at 12:00 noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hurricane Center is watching a tropical wave in the Caribbean Sea. This system could develop into a tropical storm and enter the Gulf of Mexico next week. The effects of any tropical storms or hurricanes on the oil &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/21\/when-natural-disasters-are-bad-enough-who-needs-oil-spills\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-oil-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}