{"id":3731,"date":"2011-12-26T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2011-12-26T09:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T15:31:05","slug":"now-read-this-our-top-five-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/26\/now-read-this-our-top-five-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Read This: Our Top Five Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’re probably recovering from too much nog and eating leftover ham sandwiches, but in case you missed it, here’s out top five new posts from the last week:<\/p>\n

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  1. Due to Drought, Houston Drinking More Dallas Wastewater<\/a>:\u00a0It’s long been a joke based on facts: take a drink from a tap in Houston and say ‘thank you’ to your friends in Dallas for flushing their toilets. We explain what’s exactly coming out of your faucet.<\/li>\n
  2. Fracking Company Goes on the Offensive Against EPA Report<\/a>:\u00a0The company behind a fracking well in Wyoming that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says may have contaminated water sources isn’t taking the agency’s accusations lying down.<\/li>\n
  3. What is Santa’s Carbon Footprint?<\/a>\u00a0Yes, someone actually took the time to calculate Santa\u2019s impact on the atmosphere. While we all know he brings plenty of cheer, a new infographic\u00a0shows his operation has a carbon footprint much bigger than a lump of\u00a0coal.<\/li>\n
  4. Texas Wildfires Scattered Birds to the Wind<\/a>: During a year of exceptional drought, heat and wildfires, conservationists across Texas are paying close attention to the welfare of local bird populations.<\/li>\n
  5. Hundreds of Millions of Trees Could be Lost to the Drought<\/a>:\u00a0A new estimate by the\u00a0<\/a>Texas Forest Service\u00a0says that as many as 500 million trees have died this year because of the drought.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You’re probably recovering from too much nog and eating leftover ham sandwiches, but in case you missed it, here’s out top five new posts from the last week: Due to Drought, Houston Drinking More Dallas Wastewater:\u00a0It’s long been a joke based on facts: take a drink from a tap in Houston and say ‘thank you’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,15,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731"}],"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=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}