{"id":18458,"date":"2018-02-28T10:17:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=18458"},"modified":"2018-03-01T07:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T14:23:52","slug":"hurricane-maria-stripped-puerto-ricos-forests-bare-now-conservationists-and-scientists-are-working-to-replenish-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/hurricane-maria-stripped-puerto-ricos-forests-bare-now-conservationists-and-scientists-are-working-to-replenish-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Maria stripped Puerto Rico&#8217;s forests bare, work begins to replenish them"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"610\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<blockquote class=\"repubhubembed\">\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">When Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico last September, the physical destruction was not limited to houses, buildings, the electricity grid and other infrastructure. The storm also toppled or stripped bare an estimated 480 million trees, or a third of all the forests.<!--more--><\/p>\n<style scoped>.repubhubembed{display:none;}<\/style>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"rhembed\" src=\"https:\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/view.act?t=3.16844%3Ficx_id%3D20180228-BC-ENV-PUERTORICO-FORESTS&amp;showFirstImage=true&amp;showDate=false&amp;id=161e1ecd34b&amp;v=1&amp;s=repubhub\" height=\"2067\" style=\"width:100%;border:0;background:transparent\" data-tag=\"3.16844?icx_id=20180228-BC-ENV-PUERTORICO-FORESTS\" data-source=\"repubhub\" data-safe=\"true\"><\/iframe><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.repubhub.icopyright.net\/embeds\/js\/rh.js\"><\/script>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico last September, the physical destruction was not limited to houses, buildings, the electricity grid and other infrastructure. The storm also toppled or stripped bare an estimated 480 million trees, or a third of all the forests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[50,798],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18462,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458\/revisions\/18462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}