{"id":14721,"date":"2013-06-17T10:24:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=14721"},"modified":"2013-06-17T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T15:28:11","slug":"drought-relief-might-be-more-like-temporary-respite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/06\/17\/drought-relief-might-be-more-like-temporary-respite\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought Relief? Might be More Like \u201cTemporary Respite\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parts of Oklahoma have received a lot of rain lately, and some municipalities like Norman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsok.com%2Fwater-restrictions-lifted-in-norman%2Farticle%2F3841777&ei=OCm_Uc3UOqafyAGQloDoAg&usg=AFQjCNGr76Nt_uAReKpy-gFBCa-EJDLpuA&sig2=FmZmfgiolFStJiBy3sJ1eA\">have lifted<\/a> mandatory water conservation measures.<\/p><p>But drought cycles often include periods with a lot of rain, reports the <em>Norman Transcript<\/em>\u2019s Joy Hampton, <a href=\"http:\/\/normantranscript.com\/headlines\/x2113330912\/Drought-relief-may-be-a-temporary-respite\">who interviewed<\/a> John Harrington, director of Water Resources for the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; often that comes in \u2018flashy\u2019 events \u2014 lots of water in a short time that hits the ground, causes flooding, and then goes to Arkansas,\u201d Harrington said. \u201cTwo weeks after the event there is scant evidence that the rain ever happened.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->More than half the state was still experiencing drought conditions, <a href=\"http:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/DM_state.htm?OK,S\">June 11 data<\/a> from the U.S. Drought Monitor show \u2014 much of which was concentrated in the panhandle and southwestern parts of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parts of Oklahoma have received a lot of rain lately, and some municipalities like Norman have lifted mandatory water conservation measures.But drought cycles often include periods with a lot of rain, reports the Norman Transcript\u2019s Joy Hampton, who interviewed John Harrington, director of Water Resources for the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments: &#8230; often that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[423,427],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14723,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14721\/revisions\/14723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}