{"id":1732,"date":"2007-10-22T20:39:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T20:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2007-10-22T20:39:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T20:39:34","slug":"conflagration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"Conflagration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 60 Minutes piece about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/10\/18\/60minutes\/main3380176.shtml\">alarming increase in megafires<\/a> that I watched last night was, in light of today&#8217;s news about the mass <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7055721.stm\">evacuations in California<\/a> caused by massive blazes, uncannily timely. The head of the federal firefighting forces featured in last night&#8217;s piece stated that he and his teams have no doubt that climate change is playing a major role in the longer and harsher fire seasons now confronting them. <\/p>\n<p>On a completely unrelated note, I have a short posting at the BBC regarding the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/ouch\/200710\/equal_protection.shtml\">ADA Restoration Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 60 Minutes piece about the alarming increase in megafires that I watched last night was, in light of today&#8217;s news about the mass evacuations in California caused by massive blazes, uncannily timely. The head of the federal firefighting forces featured in last night&#8217;s piece stated that he and his teams have no doubt that <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1732' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-rW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}