{"id":5236,"date":"2012-01-27T14:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2012-01-31T15:23:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T21:23:53","slug":"surviving-the-drought-one-ranchers-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/27\/surviving-the-drought-one-ranchers-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving the Drought: One Rancher&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s2DSTKM9pKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How do you come back from a drought like this, especially one that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/25\/rain-tornadoes-hail-no-the-drought-aint-over\/\">still not over<\/a>? While rains have eased conditions in parts of the state, there is still a very long way to go before we can say we&#8217;ve fully recovered from the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/drought\/\">worst single-year drought<\/a> in Texas history.<\/p>\n<p>Doris Steubing ranches cattle in Maxwell, Texas, about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/g.co\/maps\/wr5tu\">30 miles south of Austin<\/a>. Freelance videographer<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffheimsath.com\/\">\u00a0Jeff Heimsath<\/a>\u00a0visited her recently to see how the drought has affected her and other ranchers in the state. You can watch his video above, part of StateImpact Texas partner KUT&#8217;s &#8220;First Person&#8221; series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you come back from a drought like this, especially one that&#8217;s still not over? While rains have eased conditions in parts of the state, there is still a very long way to go before we can say we&#8217;ve fully recovered from the worst single-year drought in Texas history. Doris Steubing ranches cattle in [&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\/5236"}],"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=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5244,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/5244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}