{"id":14287,"date":"2018-04-20T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T16:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14287"},"modified":"2018-04-20T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T16:04:51","slug":"delightful-essay-on-life-in-the-south-african-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/04\/delightful-essay-on-life-in-the-south-african-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Delightful essay on life in the South African drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town, in South Africa, is currently experiencing a drought so bad that it is estimated to happen only once every 300 years (or to be more accurate, is experiencing a drought that has a chance of occurring in a given year of 1\/300). This is worse than our D4 drought in Oklahoma and nearby parts of the US Southwest, which are roughly 1 in 100 year events. <em>Huffington Post<\/em> has a wonderful long essay bu Eve Fairbanks on life in Cape Town and how the drought has changed it in bad and good ways there. You can read it at &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/highline.huffingtonpost.com\/articles\/en\/cape-town-drought\/?ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__042018\">Dry, the Beloved Country<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13829\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/capetown_drought_AP_18026347327048.adapt_.768.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13829\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/capetown_drought_AP_18026347327048.adapt_.768.1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/capetown_drought_AP_18026347327048.adapt_.768.1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/capetown_drought_AP_18026347327048.adapt_.768.1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/capetown_drought_AP_18026347327048.adapt_.768.1-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cape Town&#8217;s main water supply, at the Theewaterskloof Dam, is running dry, and the city may soon have to turn off its taps. Source: AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town, in South Africa, is currently experiencing a drought so bad that it is estimated to happen only once every 300 years (or to be more accurate, is experiencing a drought that has a chance of occurring in a given year of 1\/300). This is worse than our D4 drought in Oklahoma and nearby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":13829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14290,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions\/14290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}