{"id":90068,"date":"2013-05-24T10:49:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2013-05-24T10:49:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:49:50","slug":"surprise-surprise-surprise-or-not-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/surprise-surprise-surprise-or-not-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, surprise, surprise\u2026 or not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 21px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/05\/23\/house_supporters_of_kxl_received_56m_from_fossil_fuel_industry\/\">House supporters of KXL received $56m from fossil fuel industry<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"line-height: 21px;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;\">Oil Change International calculated that supporters of the bill had taken a combined $56 million from the fossil fuel industry, and that individual representatives in support of the bill had on average received six times from oil industry interests than pipeline opponents.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21px;\">While not one single person could possibly be surprised by the story above, consider for a moment, how many jobs could have been created by \u00a0spending that $56 million to plant hemp crops throughout the crumbling heartland of America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21px;\">We\u2019re spending $1 Trillion on a military fighter program that barely flies and nobody wants, when we could be\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>making<\/em><\/span>\u00a0$1 Trillion by allowing American farmers to grow the most profitable plant in human history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House supporters of KXL received $56m from fossil fuel industry Oil Change International calculated that supporters of the bill had taken a combined $56 million from the fossil fuel industry, and that individual representatives in support of the bill had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/surprise-surprise-surprise-or-not-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}