{"id":123,"date":"2009-11-23T00:27:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T05:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2009-11-27T18:43:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:43:35","slug":"123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Gas Drillers in Race for Hearts &amp; Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Peter Applebome, THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 28, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/marcellus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"marcellus\" border=\"0\" alt=\"marcellus\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/marcellus_thumb.jpg\" width=\"187\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You could have taken a nostalgic drive through the past on Thursday night, through the dreamy green landscape at the outer edges of the Catskills, past sleepy fishing towns like Roscoe and Downsville, to the lovingly restored Walton Theater, built in 1914 for vaudeville acts, honored guests like <a title=\"More articles about Theodore Roosevelt.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/theodore_roosevelt\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Theodore Roosevelt<\/a> and community events of all shapes and sizes. And, if you got there, you would have received a distinctly less dreamy glimpse of the future. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/29\/nyregion\/29towns.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of story]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/marcellus.jpg\">&#160;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The view of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale in 2008, when visions of millions of dollars started dancing before the eyes of landowners in southern New York State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[22,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}