{"id":5671,"date":"2010-03-09T12:07:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2016-05-16T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:13:00","slug":"the-environment-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5671","title":{"rendered":"The Environment Political"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Wild Moon<\/p>\n<p>Bounced out of bed this morning at 9:30 am.\u00a0 Yesterday&#8217;s early morning and late night at the capitol had taken its toll.\u00a0 I&#8217;m awake now though.\u00a0 My Latin for Chapter 7 is done, this is 3rd declension nouns.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve already received one of two books of readings that Greg, our tutor, feels will move us forward faster in regard to translation.<\/p>\n<p>Lobbying in this political environment is tough for the natural environment.\u00a0 Jobs and deficits rule the world of the legislature; the natural world, or at least the world outside of the built world, intrudes like a beloved relative dropping by for an unexpected visit.<\/p>\n<p>This session we can set the table for issues of future years, defend against certain potential harms and hope to pass some needed but relatively non-controversial legislation like complete streets (involved all potential users of transportation equally, not privileging motorized vehicles), extension of the open-bottle laws to off highway vehicles, promote economic development tools that promote green jobs and encourage retention of the state&#8217;s moratorium against building nuclear energy plants.<\/p>\n<p>At some point the winds will become more favorable and we&#8217;ll be able to tack instead of run before the wind, as we&#8217;re doing now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Wild Moon Bounced out of bed this morning at 9:30 am.\u00a0 Yesterday&#8217;s early morning and late night at the capitol had taken its toll.\u00a0 I&#8217;m awake now though.\u00a0 My Latin for Chapter 7 is done, this is 3rd declension nouns.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve already received one of two books of readings that Greg, our tutor, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Environment Political<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[14,9,100],"tags":[2269,4370],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-great-work","category-politics","tag-minnesota-legislature","tag-sierra-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41563,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions\/41563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}