{"id":175,"date":"2005-12-06T22:33:31","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T04:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/house-bill-would-sell-off-western-monument-land\/"},"modified":"2005-12-06T22:33:31","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T04:33:31","slug":"house-bill-would-sell-off-western-monument-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/house-bill-would-sell-off-western-monument-land\/","title":{"rendered":"House Bill Would Sell Off \r\n\r\nWestern Monument Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.wilderness.org\/NewsRoom\/Release\/20051201.cfm\">House Bill Would Sell Off Western Monument Land<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill <\/p>\n<p>would make it exceedingly easy for real estate speculators to stake so-called \u2018mining claims\u2019 on the public lands, assert that there are <\/p>\n<p>minerals on them, go though the purchasing process, acquire the land, and do anything with it. <strong>Next thing you know, you\u2019re <\/p>\n<p>floating past a <em>McMansion<\/em> on a wilderness river<\/strong>,\u201d said Quinn McKew of American Rivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Bill Would Sell Off Western Monument Land \u201cThis bill would make it exceedingly easy for real estate speculators to stake so-called \u2018mining claims\u2019 on the public lands, assert that there are minerals on them, go though the purchasing process, acquire the land, and do anything with it. Next thing you know, you\u2019re floating past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/house-bill-would-sell-off-western-monument-land\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House Bill Would Sell Off <\/p>\n<p>Western Monument Land<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qotd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}