{"id":166020,"date":"2026-01-01T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=166020"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:11:02","slug":"does-california-put-plants-over-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=166020","title":{"rendered":"Does California Put Plants Over People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/la-wildfires-pacific-palisades-california-rules\">City Journal posts<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Governor Newsom has dismissed the lawsuits against the state as \u201copportunistic\u201d and insisted that \u201cthe state didn\u2019t start this fire.\u201d The federal indictment supports his contention that a 29-year-old arsonist lit the match. But the evidence put forward by the victims\u2019 lawsuit suggests that state environmental policies helped ensure that a small, containable brush fire would smolder for nearly a week, unmonitored and unextinguished, until it exploded into calamity.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve people are dead. Nearly 7,000 homes and businesses are gone. And a question at the heart of this disaster\u2014whether California\u2019s environmental priorities have made its citizens less safe\u2014is one that state leaders have yet to confront.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Journal posts: Governor Newsom has dismissed the lawsuits against the state as \u201copportunistic\u201d and insisted that \u201cthe state didn\u2019t start this fire.\u201d The federal indictment supports his contention that a 29-year-old arsonist lit the match. But the evidence put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=166020\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-los-angeles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166021,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166020\/revisions\/166021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}