{"id":12419,"date":"2009-04-22T21:16:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T21:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/laura_huggins_on_earth_day_think_thoreau\/"},"modified":"2009-04-22T21:16:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T21:16:37","slug":"laura_huggins_on_earth_day_think_thoreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12419","title":{"rendered":"Laura Huggins: On Earth Day, think Thoreau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Day is upon us, and with it, several &#8220;green&#8221; events, including the broadcasting of &#8220;Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau&#8221; on public television and in schools. This is surprising at a time when government involvement in the environment is all the rage. Henry David Thoreau, who wrote that &#8220;government is best which governs not at all,&#8221; is probably writhing in his grave.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of keeping environmental management at the local level where it is most efficient, we are moving toward more centralization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oe-huggins22-2009apr22,0,5432636.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Day is upon us, and with it, several &#8220;green&#8221; events, including the broadcasting of &#8220;Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau&#8221; on public television and in schools. This is surprising at a time when government involvement in the environment is all<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12419\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-energy-natural-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}