{"id":2737,"date":"2006-04-23T19:04:16","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T02:04:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-04-23T19:04:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T02:04:16","slug":"belated-earth-day-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/23\/belated-earth-day-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Earth Day Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&#038;storyid=2006-04-22T142435Z_01_N21295703_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH.xml>This absurdity<\/a> (and <a href=http:\/\/sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/very-scary-speech.html>here&#8217;s why it&#8217;s absurd<\/a>) brings to mind an old nugget from P.J. O&#8217;Rourke:<\/p>\n<ul>Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pity O&#8217;Rourke hasn&#8217;t applied that insight to the global democracy crusade\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This absurdity (and here&#8217;s why it&#8217;s absurd) brings to mind an old nugget from P.J. O&#8217;Rourke: Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. It&#8217;s a pity O&#8217;Rourke hasn&#8217;t applied that insight to the global democracy crusade\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}