{"id":2191,"date":"2011-11-21T15:52:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T21:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2011-11-21T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T22:39:30","slug":"a-sign-of-pride-for-brown-lawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/21\/a-sign-of-pride-for-brown-lawns\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sign of Pride for Brown Lawns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for the many Texans living through the drought who are letting their grass die.<\/p>\n<p>A new campaign by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texaswater.org\/ctwen\/index.html\">Central Texas Water Efficiency Network<\/a> (a group of water providers and conservation advocates) allows you to show off your dying grass as a model for conservation. Free signs are now available to residents to show their pride in a thirsty lawn:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/ThisYard-Final-02.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2192\" title=\"ThisYard-Final-02\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/ThisYard-Final-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/ThisYard-Final-02.jpg 470w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/ThisYard-Final-02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/ThisYard-Final-02-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/ThisYard-Final-02-138x103.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>The signs &#8220;provide a great explanation for why brown is the new \u201cgreen\u201d for Central Texas lawns during the drought,&#8221; says the group&#8217;s website.\u00a0You can pick up your own at several locations in\u00a0 Austin, San Marcos and Round Rock. More information is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texaswater.org\/ctwen\/pledge.html\">available on the group&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for the many Texans living through the drought who are letting their grass die. A new campaign by the Central Texas Water Efficiency Network (a group of water providers and conservation advocates) allows you to show off your dying grass as a model for conservation. Free signs are now available to residents to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":2192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}