{"id":4870,"date":"2013-05-23T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2013-05-23T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:05:19","slug":"nineteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/nineteen\/","title":{"rendered":"nineteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/L1002572-shade-tree.jpg\" alt=\"albemarle square lone shade tree\"><br \/>\nIt was a Republican president who drove the largest expansion of parkland ever (YAY! TR! Teddy!). It was a Republican who started up the EPA.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHow many Republicans can you fit under a single tree in a parking lot? At least nineteen.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhen did it become a bad thing in the Republican mind to be an environmentalist?<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or sometimes USEPA) is an agency of the U.S. federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.[2] The EPA was proposed by President Richard Nixon and began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. The order establishing the EPA was ratified by committee hearings in the House and Senate.&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a Republican president who drove the largest expansion of parkland ever (YAY! TR! Teddy!). It was a Republican who started up the EPA. How many Republicans can you fit under a single tree in a parking lot? At least nineteen. When did it become a bad thing in the Republican mind to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/nineteen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;nineteen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,16,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-flora","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4875,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}