{"id":7157,"date":"2012-07-31T12:17:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2012-07-31T12:33:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:33:20","slug":"when-a-sparrow-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7157","title":{"rendered":"When a sparrow falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently I have hornets and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2012\/07\/30\/157606554\/thank-the-simple-wasp-for-that-complex-glass-of-wine\">wasps<\/a> to thank for my wine cellar. They carry yeast in their guts and bite wine grapes thus passing it on.<\/p>\n<p>Reading about this reminded me of one of the great miscalculations of Maoist China that caused the starvation of about 30 million people, The <a href=\"http:\/\/chineseculture.about.com\/od\/historyofchina\/a\/Chinese-History-Great-Sparrow-Campaign.htm\">Great Sparrow Campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It may be true that no sparrow can fall to the ground without God&#8217;s knowing it but that doesn&#8217;t mean the consequences are all that obvious to man. That&#8217;s worth keeping in mind as Republican leaders keep pooh poohing the notion that releasing hundreds of millions of years of naturally sequestered carbon into the atmosphere over a couple of human lifetimes will have any adverse consequences.Some say that God is in the details so we should be grateful that the Republicans have his ear. I&#8217;m sure the close collaboration of God and his party will prevent Lake Superior from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northlandsnewscenter.com\/news\/local\/Lake-Superior-Heating-up-in-2012-164335296.html\">evaporating<\/a>. Apparently some people have been aware of this for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/08\/070803-shrinking-lake.html\">quite some time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if God&#8217;s party is right and America starts acting all godless by allowing gays to marry it could be curtains for ole Gitchi Goomi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently I have hornets and wasps to thank for my wine cellar. They carry yeast in their guts and bite wine grapes thus passing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7159,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions\/7159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}