{"id":2313,"date":"2011-11-23T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2011-11-23T14:02:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:02:14","slug":"small-texas-town-running-out-of-water-makes-national-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/23\/small-texas-town-running-out-of-water-makes-national-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Texas Town Running Out of Water Makes National News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><object width=\"625\" height=\"279\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\" \/><param name=\"background\" value=\"#333333\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"si=254&amp;&amp;contentValue=50115412&amp;shareUrl=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-18563_162-57329867\/texas-city-faces-bone-dry-reality\/\" \/><embed width=\"625\" height=\"279\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\" scale=\"noscale\" salign=\"lt\" background=\"#333333\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"si=254&amp;&amp;contentValue=50115412&amp;shareUrl=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-18563_162-57329867\/texas-city-faces-bone-dry-reality\/\" \/><\/object><\/code><br \/>\nThe town of Groesbeck&#8217;s water issues have been making news for over a week now. The town is running out of water, and while estimates vary as to <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/14\/what-happens-when-water-runs-out\/\">exactly when that will happen<\/a>, everyone seems to agree it&#8217;s a real enough possibility in the near future to be worried.<\/p>\n<p>The town approved a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/16\/texas-towns-taps-still-running\/\">stopgap measure last week <\/a>to pipe in water from a quarry a few miles away, which should hold them over until March. And on Monday evening, the town got about two inches of much-needed rain.<\/p>\n<p>Now the story is making national news, bringing more attention to the drought in Texas.\u00a0CBS News aired the report above Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Groesbeck&#8217;s water issues have been making news for over a week now. The town is running out of water, and while estimates vary as to exactly when that will happen, everyone seems to agree it&#8217;s a real enough possibility in the near future to be worried. The town approved a stopgap measure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"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\/2313"}],"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=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}