{"id":860,"date":"2009-12-08T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T03:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2009-12-08T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T03:33:02","slug":"wow-i-didnt-know-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Wow! I didn&#039;t know that!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where deforestation has taken place to make way for cultivation, soils have been exposed to higher precipitation and temperatures. These processes deplete the soil&#8217;s organic matter, the soils harden and turn to desert. In 1882, desert or wasteland covered an estimated 9.4 percent of the Earth&#8217;s surface. By 1952 that area had increased to nearly twenty-five percent. It is a growing trend and one which, once it has happened, is very difficult, if not impossible, to reverse. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.second-opinions.co.uk\/vegetarian.html#N_4_\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.second-opinions.co.uk\/vegetarian.html#N_4_<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where deforestation has taken place to make way for cultivation, soils have been exposed to higher precipitation and temperatures. These processes deplete the soil&#8217;s organic matter, the soils harden and turn to desert. In 1882, desert or wasteland covered an estimated 9.4 percent of the Earth&#8217;s surface. By 1952 that area had increased to nearly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wow! I didn&#039;t know that!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}