{"id":914,"date":"2004-04-04T13:35:37","date_gmt":"2004-04-04T18:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/04\/04\/this-is-kentucky\/"},"modified":"2004-04-04T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2004-04-04T18:35:37","slug":"this-is-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/04\/04\/this-is-kentucky\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I had never seen something so corrupt and lawless in my entire career &#8230; interference with a federal investigation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A47914-2004Apr3.html\" title=\"&quot;The bottom of a coal mine waste impoundment collapsed into an abandoned underground mine near Inez, Ky., in October 2000. An estimated 250 million to 300 million gallons of water, coal and rock particles poured out of the mine, killing fish and fouling drinking water supplies.&quot;\">most serious environmental disaster<\/a> in the history of the Eastern United States.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a friend who&#8217;s from Inez originally, and I remember talking to him over IM when the spills happened in 2000 (we were home on fall break at the time).  He took some pictures of water in the area; I&#8217;ll have to ask if I can post some of those, if he still has them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I had never seen something so corrupt and lawless in my entire career &#8230; interference with a federal investigation of the most serious environmental disaster in the history of the Eastern United States.&#8221; I have a friend who&#8217;s from Inez originally, and I remember talking to him over IM when the spills happened in 2000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kentucky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}