{"id":934,"date":"2003-08-11T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-11T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2003-08-11T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-11T18:39:00","slug":"934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/934\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stevie Wonder had an album out called &#8216;Hotter Than July&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>He&#8217;s been better off calling it, &#8220;fucking boiling hot August&#8221;, in my book.<br \/>\n<br \/>Yesterday was the hottest day in UK recorded history, reaching 38.1C (100.6F) in the south of England &#8211; although Europe has got it far worse with forest fires ravaging their countryside and a rising casualty rate from heat strokes.<br \/>\n<br \/>Some may think that this freakshow weather is a result of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/static\/in_depth\/sci_tech\/2000\/climate_change\/default.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Change<\/a> brought on by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/weather\/features\/global_warming1.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Global Warming<\/a>. In fact, you&#8217;d think that there&#8217;s been enough <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatehotmap.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">warning signs<\/a> from scientists &#8211; and nature &#8211; to make ratifying the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/science\/hottopics\/climatechange\/kyototreaty.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Kyoto Treaty<\/a> a major priority.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.com\/Punch\/bush.html \" target=\"_blank\">George Bush<\/a> has declared the Treaty <em>&#8220;bad for business&#8221;<\/em>, thus declaring the American economy to be far more important than the lives of millions. The useless fuckwit that he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevie Wonder had an album out called &#8216;Hotter Than July&#8217; He&#8217;s been better off calling it, &#8220;fucking boiling hot August&#8221;, in my book. Yesterday was the hottest day in UK &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-934","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}