{"id":18547,"date":"2015-03-09T18:25:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T00:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=18547"},"modified":"2015-03-09T18:25:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T00:25:17","slug":"water-grab-pits-vegas-against-mormons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/03\/water-grab-pits-vegas-against-mormons.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Water grab pits Vegas against Mormons&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18548\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/782px-Lake_Mead_1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18548\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/782px-Lake_Mead_1-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Lake Mead\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Mead, from the top of Hoover Dam<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a significant\u00a0story, much more fundamentally important than the typical headline news on television and radio:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2015\/03\/07\/258998\/water-grab-pits-las-vegas-against.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2015\/03\/07\/258998\/water-grab-pits-las-vegas-against.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Water is one of the most intractable issues in the Middle East, as well, pitting Israel against Jordan, Egypt against the Sudan and Ethiopia, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from San Jose, California<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Here\u2019s a significant\u00a0story, much more fundamentally important than the typical headline news on television and radio: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2015\/03\/07\/258998\/water-grab-pits-las-vegas-against.html \u00a0 Water is one of the most intractable issues in the Middle East, as well, pitting Israel against Jordan, Egypt against the Sudan and Ethiopia, and so forth. \u00a0 Posted from San Jose, California \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Water grab pits Vegas against Mormons&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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