{"id":199312072,"date":"2011-04-26T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=199312072"},"modified":"2011-04-26T20:27:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:27:52","slug":"our-bay-legislators-miss-the-boat-for-the-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=199312072","title":{"rendered":"Our Bay: Legislators miss the boat for the bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nSurely, given their professed support for the Chesapeake and its waterways, the fact that the elections were over and the increasingly costly obligation to meet clean-up benchmarks, our legislators would take tangible steps to clean up the bay in 2011, right?<br \/>\nWrong.<br \/>\nNearly every major environmental policy initiative that was put forward in the 2011 legislative session died. Like a school of menhaden trapped in a dead zone, these initiatives were bottled up in committee and unable to survive.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hometownannapolis.com\/news\/env\/2011\/04\/23-20\/Our-Bay-Legislators-miss-the-boat-for-the-bay.html\">https:\/\/www.hometownannapolis.com\/news\/env\/2011\/04\/23-20\/Our-Bay-Legislators-miss-the-boat-for-the-bay.html<\/a>oldId.20110426202752170<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Surely, given their professed support for the Chesapeake and its waterways, the fact that the elections were over and the increasingly costly obligation to meet clean-up benchmarks, our legislators would take tangible steps to clean up the bay in 2011, right? Wrong. Nearly every major environmental policy initiative that was put forward in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=199312072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Bay: Legislators miss the boat for the bay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199312072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199312072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199312072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199312072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199312072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199312072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199312072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}