{"id":2016,"date":"2007-05-03T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2007-05-03T00:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T05:29:00","slug":"current-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"current events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story about a website with user-created content, where the users took over:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/02\/the-day-the-digg-users-revolted\/<\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting story about the coal industry, however it exercises a certain flawed logic: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coal is so cheap and so widely available that its increased use is inevitable, but clearing the hurdle to burning it on a wide scale \u2014 separating the carbon dioxide and sequestering it \u2014 could turn out to be one of the great engineering challenges of the century, energy experts say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wind and sunlight are both cheaper, and more widely available than coal, not to mention renewable, which coal is not (at the current rate of consumption).  I wonder whether the author would claim their increased use is inevitable.  Also, I wonder if the author has failed to notice that coal is being burned on a wide scale.  <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/01\/science\/01coal.html<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, there&#8217;s more, but those were just two things that caught my interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story about a website with user-created content, where the users took over: http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/02\/the-day-the-digg-users-revolted\/ This is an interesting story about the coal industry, however it exercises a certain flawed logic: Coal is so cheap and so widely available that its increased use is inevitable, but clearing the hurdle to burning it on a wide scale &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=2016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;current events&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}