{"id":12953,"date":"2012-06-19T16:52:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien.jpg"},"modified":"2012-06-19T16:52:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:52:43","slug":"mort_mertzcmichaelobrien","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/06\/27\/life-by-the-drop-when-the-sky-ran-dry\/mort_mertzcmichaelobrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Mort_Mertz(c)MichaelOBrien"},"author":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien.jpg'><img width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-200x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-620x930.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Mort Mertz, 88, has been ranching in West Texas since 1954. He lives in San Angelo. \u201cIt started out west,\u201d Mertz recalls. \u201cIt tended to get dry out there and not rain, and that lack of rainfall just moved east. My dad kept saying, \u201cWe have these things; they\u2019ll just go about eighteen months. It\u2019ll break.\u201d But that\u2019s what caught everybody off guard: it didn\u2019t break. It just kept on going, and it lasted about seven years.\u201d<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":"3000","height":"4500","hwstring_small":"height='96' width='64'","file":"2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-150x150.jpg","width":"150","height":"150","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-200x300.jpg","width":"200","height":"300","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-200x300.jpg"},"large":{"file":"Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-620x930.jpg","width":"620","height":"930","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-620x930.jpg"},"station-thumb":{"file":"Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-140x4500.jpg","width":"140","height":"4500","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-140x4500.jpg"},"multimedia-thumb":{"file":"Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-300x100.jpg","width":"300","height":"100","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-300x100.jpg"},"thumb-100":{"file":"Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-100x100.jpg","width":"100","height":"100","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-100x100.jpg"},"featured-thumb":{"file":"Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-60x60.jpg","width":"60","height":"60","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien-60x60.jpg"},"full":{"file":"Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien.jpg","width":3000,"height":4500,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"13","credit":"Michael O'Brien","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1338232309","copyright":"\u00c2\u00a92012 Michael O'Brien","focal_length":"60","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.005","title":""}},"post":12948,"source_url":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Mort_MertzcMichaelOBrien.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12953"}]}}