{"id":1242,"date":"2012-02-01T16:35:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2012-02-01T16:38:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:38:56","slug":"u-s-seems-to-have-largely-escaped-winter-failure-to-mention-global-warming-is-journalistic-malpractice-thinkprogress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/02\/u-s-seems-to-have-largely-escaped-winter-failure-to-mention-global-warming-is-journalistic-malpractice-thinkprogress\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. &#8216;Seems to Have Largely Escaped Winter.&#8217; Failure to Mention Global Warming Is &#8216;Journalistic Malpractice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For reasons that no major U.S. news outlet can apparently explain, it has been really, really warm in the middle of winter over much of the country.\u00a0 How warm is it?\u00a0 It is so damn warm:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDick Cheney waterboarded himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharlie Sheen was snorting actual snow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw Rupert Murdoch trying to hack his way into a Cold Stone Creamery.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress had to install a fan on the debt ceiling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was so damn warm that the New York Times ran this amazing story:<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2012\/01\/31\/415942\/la-times-us-escaped-winter-global-warming-journalistic-malpractice\/\">L.A. Times Explains U.S. &#8216;Seems to Have Largely Escaped Winter.&#8217; Failure to Mention Global Warming Is &#8216;Journalistic Malpractice&#8217; | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For reasons that no major U.S. news outlet can apparently explain, it has been really, really warm in the middle of winter over much of the country.\u00a0 How warm is it?\u00a0 It is so damn warm: \u201cDick Cheney waterboarded himself.\u201d \u201cCharlie Sheen was snorting actual snow.\u201d \u201cI saw Rupert Murdoch trying to hack his way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22],"tags":[258,292,818,819],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}