{"id":1128,"date":"2012-07-27T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2012-07-27T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T16:21:20","slug":"you-must-see-droughts-footprint-graphic-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"You *must* see Drought&rsquo;s Footprint &#8211; Graphic &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating graphic of US drought patterns over a century. (Excellent example of data presentation.) Find your birth year and come forward &#8212; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never been worse for most of us. <em style=\"color: red\"><sub>mjh<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/07\/20\/us\/drought-footprint.html\">Drought\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Footprint &#8211; Graphic &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6>Published: July 19, 2012 <\/h6>\n<h3>Drought\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Footprint<\/h3>\n<p>More than half of the country was under moderate to extreme drought in June, the largest area of the contiguous United States affected by such dryness in nearly 60 years. Nearly 1,300 counties across 29 states have been declared federal disaster areas. Areas under moderate to extreme drought in June of each year are shown in orange below.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/07\/20\/us\/drought-footprint.html\">Drought\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Footprint &#8211; Graphic &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating graphic of US drought patterns over a century. (Excellent example of data presentation.) Find your birth year and come forward &#8212; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never been worse for most of us. mjh Drought\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Footprint &#8211; Graphic &#8211; NYTimes.com Published: July 19, 2012 Drought\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Footprint More than half of the country was under moderate to extreme drought &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1128\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You *must* see Drought&rsquo;s Footprint &#8211; Graphic &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}