{"id":42758,"date":"2014-01-18T05:17:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T13:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=42758"},"modified":"2014-01-18T05:53:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T13:53:25","slug":"california-governor-declares-drought-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=42758","title":{"rendered":"California Governor Declares Drought Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2014\/01\/17\/california-drought-emergency\/4581761\/\">USA Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>In what could become one of California&#8217;s biggest crises in years, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a statewide drought emergency Friday, an action that sets the stage for new state and federal efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also wants to focus Californians on the possibility of water shortages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The situation in most of California and northern Nevada is extremely dry, according to the most recent report Thursday from the U.S. Drought Monitor, a federal website that tracks drought nationwide. Almost 99% of California is considered abnormally dry or worse; almost two-thirds of the state is in extreme drought.<\/p>\n<p>2013 became the driest year on record in California; San Francisco had the least rain since record keeping there began during the gold rush of 1849.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: USA Today: In what could become one of California&#8217;s biggest crises in years, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a statewide drought emergency Friday, an action that sets the stage for new state and federal efforts. The governor also wants to focus Californians on the possibility of water shortages. &#8230; The situation in most of California [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42760,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42758\/revisions\/42760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}