{"id":796,"date":"2015-10-08T19:26:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T02:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=796"},"modified":"2015-10-08T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T02:26:11","slug":"toxins-kill-salmon-but-its-not-your-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2015\/10\/08\/toxins-kill-salmon-but-its-not-your-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxins kill salmon, but it&#8217;s not your problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/environment\/whats-killing-coho-study-points-to-urban-road-runoff\/\">An article in The Seattle Times covers research that finds toxic runoff from roads kills salmon<\/a>. The only solution discussed\u00a0is filtering\u00a0the runoff through soil, which\u00a0would poison\u00a0the soil rather than fish. The author neglects to ask any questions about the source of the toxins, or whether all of us should address our culpability in a system that is causing\u00a0this problem.<\/p>\n<p>This is a classic Seattle Times story \u2013 ostensibly showing concern for the environment, but not addressing\u00a0relevant issues\u00a0that might\u00a0disrupt the status quo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in The Seattle Times covers research that finds toxic runoff from roads kills salmon. The only solution discussed\u00a0is filtering\u00a0the runoff through soil, which\u00a0would poison\u00a0the soil rather than fish. The author neglects to ask any questions about the source of the toxins, or whether all of us should address our culpability in a system&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2015\/10\/08\/toxins-kill-salmon-but-its-not-your-problem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toxins kill salmon, but it&#8217;s not your problem<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-journalism-blogs","category-the-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-cQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}