{"id":1510,"date":"2012-04-22T20:48:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T03:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2018-03-31T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:23:04","slug":"the-earth-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"The Earth Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate Earth Day, here&#8217;s a photo-toon from our July 25, 2006 issue. One can substitute the perpetual conflict in the Middle East with environmental pollution, species annihilation, excessive consumerism and human overpopulation but the conclusion is the same: humans are systematically destroying the only planet we know of that supports life, spaceship Earth. Take care of the planet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1511\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=1511\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1511\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1511\" title=\"earthspeaks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/EarthMiddleEastWar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/EarthMiddleEastWar.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/EarthMiddleEastWar-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The space station astronauts took this rare photo of the Earth commenting on the latest violent conflict to erupt in the Middle East.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate Earth Day, here&#8217;s a photo-toon from our July 25, 2006 issue. One can substitute the perpetual conflict in the Middle East with environmental pollution, species annihilation, excessive consumerism and human overpopulation but the conclusion is the same: humans are systematically destroying the only planet we know of that supports life, spaceship Earth. Take &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Earth Speaks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1,1715,35],"tags":[74,495,492,494,497,420,496,98,493,106,498,491],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5946,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/5946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}