{"id":11236,"date":"2021-11-01t16:18:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-01t16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/essay-droughts-and-heat-the-future-of-texas\/"},"modified":"2021-11-01t16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01t16:18:24","slug":"texas-droughts-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/texas-droughts-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"essay | droughts and heat: the future of texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>growing up in a family that owns and operates multiple oil fields across texas, conversations around climate change sparsely came up during my childhood. but as i reached my teenage years, i began noticing the effects of climate change in texas: how the droughts drying out the lakes at my family\u2019s ranch were affecting the wildlife that depended on them, how the increasing hurricanes were displacing my cousins in houston more frequently, and\u2013\u2013the most obvious effect to me\u2013\u2013the rising temperatures.<\/p>\n<p><script id=\"asp-embed-script\" data-zindex=\"1000000\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page-embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asp-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/xkdjveupfensh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"droughts and heat: the future of texas\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/xkdjveupfensh\/embed.jpg?buster=1635783403402\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>editor&#8217;s note: check back each day during cop26 for more pieces&nbsp;in planet forward&#8217;s climate hits&nbsp;home series.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>climate hits home | growing up in a family that owns and operates multiple oil fields across texas, conversations around climate change sparsely came up during my childhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4916],"tags":[144,4588,189,3574,787],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-11236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-cop26","tag-drought","tag-extreme-weather","tag-texas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- this site is optimized with the yoast seo plugin v23.4 - 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