{"id":29,"date":"2008-03-22T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/2008\/03\/22\/department-of-the-planet-earth\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T03:20:00","slug":"department-of-the-planet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/department-of-the-planet-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of the Planet Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n<p>Today I have a reference to a new piece of writing by a close friend, Carol van Strum out in Tidewater, Oregon. Carol has mentored my environmental investigative reporting for many years. She&#8217;s currently doing a series of book reviews for a website called Department of the Planet Earth. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deptplanetearth.com\/book_SzilardSmith.html\">Here are her latest reviews<\/a> &#8212; pretty interesting stuff, if you ask me, most of it related to the ethics of the atomic bomb.<br \/>\nFor environmental junkies out there, Carol is the author of the book <em>A Bitter Fog<\/em>, and is one of the people who helped me learn how to do this kind of journalism, posted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dioxindorms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dioxin Dorms<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.planetwavesweekly.com\/resources\/images\/sign_white.jpg?resize=185%2C45&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Eric Francis\" title=\"Planet Waves\" height=\"45\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"185\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friend and Reader: Today I have a reference to a new piece of writing by a close friend, Carol van Strum out in Tidewater, Oregon. Carol has mentored my environmental investigative reporting for many years. She&#8217;s currently doing a series of book reviews for a website called Department of the Planet Earth. Here are &#8230; <a title=\"Department of the Planet Earth\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/department-of-the-planet-earth\/\" aria-label=\"More on Department of the Planet Earth\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}