{"id":106,"date":"2012-07-14T21:41:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T02:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2012-07-14T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T02:42:51","slug":"rationing-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"rationing water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently under water rationing in Shawnee. For instance, our household is only allowed to use water outside on Tuesdays and Fridays, and only before 10 am or after 6 pm. We are told that the lake levels are fine, and the limitation is rather the capacity of the water treatment plant. <\/p>\n<p>There are two questions one might ask about this situation. One would be &#8220;Why did the City of Shawnee contemplate building a sports facility on the other side of the highway if the water treatment plant needs to be upgraded?&#8221; On the other hand, &#8220;Why do the citizens of Shawnee need treated water to spray on their lawns?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We should all have rainwater collection systems on our houses. I had one at the last house I inhabited, but haven&#8217;t put one in here. I have no interest in watering my lawn (then I&#8217;d have to mow it!), but I would like to water my vegetable garden. It rained tonight; I should have had my buckets out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently under water rationing in Shawnee. For instance, our household is only allowed to use water outside on Tuesdays and Fridays, and only before 10 am or after 6 pm. We are told that the lake levels are fine, and the limitation is rather the capacity of the water treatment plant. There are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/donaldwinslow.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}