{"id":51574,"date":"2022-08-18T08:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51574"},"modified":"2022-08-18T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T19:12:06","slug":"texas-cattle-industry-faces-existential-crisis-from-historic-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51574","title":{"rendered":"Texas cattle industry faces existential crisis from historic drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AUSTIN, Texas<\/strong> \u2014 The megadrought in the Western U.S., the region\u2019s worst in 1,200 years, is threatening America\u2019s cattle heartland: withering pastures, wrecking feed harvests and endangering a quintessential way of life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The drought is forcing ranchers here in Texas and across the Southern plains to make an agonizing decision: Sell early now for less money than they planned on \u2014 or hold on, pray for rain and risk losing everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The megadrought in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51575,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51574\/revisions\/51575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}