{"id":817,"date":"2011-06-29T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2011-06-29T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T16:05:37","slug":"heart-of-dixie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Heart of Dixie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news was playing on the radio as I drove the children to daycare this morning when a story came on about the ongoing water resources battle between Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia. The newscaster informed us of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/06\/28\/137482826\/court-tosses-water-restriction-on-metro-atlanta\">federal court&#8217;s ruling in Georgia&#8217;s favor<\/a>. I sighed audibly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s wrong, Mommy?&#8221; Lydia asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, Georgia&#8217;s trying to take our water.&#8221; I explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No no, Georgia! You can&#8217;t have our water! That&#8217;s not nice!&#8221; Lydia scolded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news was playing on the radio as I drove the children to daycare this morning when a story came on about the ongoing water resources battle between Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia. The newscaster informed us of a federal court&#8217;s ruling in Georgia&#8217;s favor. I sighed audibly. &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong, Mommy?&#8221; Lydia asked. &#8220;Oh, Georgia&#8217;s trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}