{"id":125,"date":"2009-03-03T20:56:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T01:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-03-03T20:56:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T01:56:38","slug":"las-vegas-runaway-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas runaway growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcwetboy.net\/maproom\/\">The Map Room<\/a> put up a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcwetboy.net\/maproom\/2009\/02\/growth_in_las_v.php\">slidshow<\/a> showing the huge growth of the Las Vegas metropolitan area over the last 20 years.  What I found most alarming though was that you can actually see the water level declining in Lake Meade as the city grows.  <\/p>\n<p>Granted, I&#8217;m not sure if this is just an effect of the images being from different times of year, but alarming nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-xwquYkf43o&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-xwquYkf43o&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Map Room put up a nice slidshow showing the huge growth of the Las Vegas metropolitan area over the last 20 years. What I found most alarming though was that you can actually see the water level declining in Lake Meade as the city grows. Granted, I&#8217;m not sure if this is just an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}