{"id":215,"date":"2007-11-01T11:44:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T18:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/misplaced-faith\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T18:44:39","slug":"misplaced-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/misplaced-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"misplaced faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/trw-ecn-11_1_07.jpg\" title=\"TRW ECN 11\/1\/07\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/trw-ecn-11_1_07.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"TRW ECN 11\/1\/07\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No foundation in law or natural rights exists to make third parties liable for existing infrastructure deficiencies.  Moreover, regardless of how &#8220;responsible and fair regulations&#8221; are, the county has no regulatory authority over private mineral rights, including groundwater.  This is not to say that such resources shouldn&#8217;t be carefully husbanded to maximize their utility, or that the pristine nature of our surroundings shouldn&#8217;t be protected.  Government, however, is probably the last place I would look to protect such valuables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click to enlarge) No foundation in law or natural rights exists to make third parties liable for existing infrastructure deficiencies. Moreover, regardless of how &#8220;responsible and fair regulations&#8221; are, the county has no regulatory authority over private mineral rights, including groundwater. This is not to say that such resources shouldn&#8217;t be carefully husbanded to maximize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning","7":"category-water","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}