{"id":303,"date":"2007-06-07T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_residents_told_to_cut_showers_as_drought_deepens\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T21:00:00","slug":"la_residents_told_to_cut_showers_as_drought_deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"LA residents told to cut showers as drought deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles residents were urged on Wednesday to take shorter showers, reduce lawn sprinklers and stop throwing trash in toilets in a bid to cut water usage by 10 percent in the driest year on record.<\/p>\n<p>With downtown Los Angeles seeing a record low of 4 inches<\/p>\n<p>of rain since July 2006 &#8212; less than a quarter of normal &#8212; and with a hot, dry summer ahead, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the city needed &#8220;to change course and conserve water to steer clear of this perfect storm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is the driest year since rainfall records began 130 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/environmentNews\/idUSN0642623620070606?feedType=RSS&#038;rpc=22\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles residents were urged on Wednesday to take shorter showers, reduce lawn sprinklers and stop throwing trash in toilets in a bid to cut water usage by 10 percent in the driest year on record. With downtown Los Angeles<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=303\">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-303","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\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}