{"id":191,"date":"2009-08-19T15:32:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/obama-underwrites-offshore-drilling-in-brazil-but-not-in-the-us"},"modified":"2009-08-19T15:32:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T19:32:27","slug":"obama-underwrites-offshore-drilling-in-brazil-but-not-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Obama underwrites offshore drilling in Brazil, but not in the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"UIOneOff_Container\">\n<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/pkjmjq\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil<\/a>, while still blocking offshore drilling in the US. <\/p>\n<p>Sarah Palin has written a thoughtful commentary on this situation on Facebook: <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=119471438434\" target=\"_blank\">YOUR TAX DOLLARS HARD AT WORK: FIRST CARS, NOW FOREIGN OIL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both articles are worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#39;t make sense to me that we should spend taxpayer money to expand Brazil&#39;s oil production while prohibiting commercial expansion of US oil production.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps some of you may have insight into the thought processes behind this paradoxical state of affairs.?<br \/><span class=\"view_switch summary\"><span class=\"current\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil, while still blocking offshore drilling in the US. Sarah Palin has written a thoughtful commentary on this situation on Facebook: YOUR TAX DOLLARS HARD AT &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1780,1767],"tags":[352,184,109,353],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-35","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}