{"id":1926,"date":"2010-08-01T20:58:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T06:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2010-08-01T21:37:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T07:37:06","slug":"hands-across-the-sand-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=1926","title":{"rendered":"Hands Across The Sand &#8211; Clean Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 26, at beaches all over the US and in places around the world, people joined hands to protest the BP Gulf disaster. By extension, people were also showing their support for using less oil and more renewable energy, hopefully reversing America\u2019s oil addiction. This demonstration was organized and publicized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handsacrossthesand.com\/\">Hands Across the Sand<\/a>, an organization that has been opposing offshore oil drilling since before the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>We went to the closest beach in Pacifica. Unfortunately, the cold, windy, and cloudy weather meant there was a low turnout:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/3\/web\/100626-has-1.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/3\/web\/100626-has-2.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kick the Oil Habit!<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/3\/web\/100626-has-kick-the-habit.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/3\/web\/100626-has-panorama.jpg' height=\"149\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"371\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lSi8N-hsXKc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lSi8N-hsXKc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 26, at beaches all over the US and in places around the world, people joined hands to protest the BP Gulf disaster. By extension, people were also showing their support for using less oil and more renewable energy,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}