{"id":72,"date":"2009-02-16T17:04:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T22:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appalachia.matthewmosher.us\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-02-16T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T22:04:47","slug":"reason-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/intent\/reason-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain Top Mining.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As we speak the Appalachians are dramatically changing shape and appearance due to an enthusiastic new mining approach that literally takes the tops right off the mountains. \u00a0Besides destroying the scenery of the oldest mountain range in the world, this form of coal mining has great environmental repercussions for plants, animals, and local residents. \u00a0And coal isn&#8217;t exactly the cleanest form of energy we have available to us. \u00a0Since the damage increases daily, I&#8217;d rather hike the trail sooner rather than later, as the effects of the mining becomre more noticeable. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can read and hear more about this kind of mining at <span style=\"color: #551a8b; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=99493874\">NPR<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then take action at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovemountains.org\/\">iLoveMountains.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain Top Mining. \u00a0 As we speak the Appalachians are dramatically changing shape and appearance due to an enthusiastic new mining approach that literally takes the tops right off the mountains. \u00a0Besides destroying the scenery of the oldest mountain range in the world, this form of coal mining has great environmental repercussions for plants, animals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,34,35],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intent","tag-action","tag-mining","tag-mountains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}