{"id":5834,"date":"2020-04-29T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:27:56","slug":"letter-is-earth-day-worth-the-cost-and-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/letter-is-earth-day-worth-the-cost-and-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Is Earth Day worth the cost and trouble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating 50 years of Earth Day. Waste of time? Looks like it.<\/p>\n<p>Just look around.<\/p>\n<p>Every street. Every freeway. Every parking lot is littered with trash and discards. Its not an \u201cOoops\u201d that it\u2019s there. It is a deliberate act of throwing stuff down. Even Latex gloves now.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what the answer is, but it ain\u2019t more money. 2&#215;4 to the top of someone\u2019s head maybe. <\/p>\n<p>Even if this letter is printed, will anyone read it? Will anyone care?<\/p>\n<p>Have a great Earth Day.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Bill Hoffrage,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Madera<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating 50 years of Earth Day. Waste of time? Looks like it. Just look around. Every street. Every freeway. Every parking lot is littered with trash and discards. Its not an \u201cOoops\u201d that it\u2019s there. It is a deliberate act of throwing stuff down. Even Latex gloves now. I don\u2019t know what the answer is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-5834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}