{"id":41525,"date":"2017-08-06T04:30:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T08:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41525"},"modified":"2017-08-06T04:30:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T08:30:42","slug":"hour-twenty-nature-and-the-unnatural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-twenty-nature-and-the-unnatural\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twenty, nature and the unnatural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Misplaced<\/p>\n<p>African gazelles live and thrive in the desert<br \/>\nscrub surrounding El Paso, and New Mexico&#8217;s<br \/>\nWhite Sands Missile Range.<\/p>\n<p>A graceful and gorgeous animal, the oryx<br \/>\nwas endangered in its ancestral homeland,<br \/>\nbut is now a pest here in its new desert home<br \/>\na softer place with no natural predators than<br \/>\nits native Kalahari, breeding far beyond<br \/>\ntheir boundaries within lands that regularly<br \/>\ntest military missiles.<\/p>\n<p>They must be hunted, the five thousand or more<br \/>\nthat live out there, to reduce them to the acceptable<br \/>\nfive hundred they were expected to be when released.<br \/>\nA well meaning program by uninformed people<br \/>\nto boost their numbers creates chaos in a land<br \/>\nnot naturally their home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misplaced African gazelles live and thrive in the desert scrub surrounding El Paso, and New Mexico&#8217;s White Sands Missile Range. A graceful and gorgeous animal, the oryx was endangered in its ancestral homeland, but is now a pest here in its new desert home a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41592,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41525\/revisions\/41592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}