{"id":8080,"date":"2014-03-12T08:34:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=8080"},"modified":"2014-03-12T08:34:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:34:39","slug":"nature-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=8080","title":{"rendered":"NATURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/MCPTV26.ORG\/images\/firestorm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8081\" alt=\"firestorm\" src=\"http:\/\/MCPTV26.ORG\/images\/firestorm-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/firestorm-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/firestorm.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>SURVIVORS OF THE FIRESTORM<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12 @ 6:00PM &amp; 11:00PM<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In February 2009, conditions were ripe for wildfires in the state of Victoria in southeast Australia. Relentless heat waves, seemingly endless drought, and arid winds sweeping in from the outback had left the countryside tinder dry and braced for the worst. Then, on Saturday, February 7, Victoria went up in flames; and raging fires engulfed everything in their path. By the time the fires subsided, 173 people had lost their lives, over one million acres of mountain ash forest had been destroyed, and countless animals had perished. The overwhelming firestorm was one of the worst in the country\u2019s history, and came to be known as Black Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/nature\/episodes\/survivors-of-the-firestorm\/introduction\/6510\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b><br \/>\nFind out more \u00bb<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SURVIVORS OF THE FIRESTORM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12 @ 6:00PM &amp; 11:00PM In February 2009, conditions were ripe for wildfires in the state of Victoria in southeast Australia. Relentless heat waves, seemingly endless drought, and arid winds sweeping in from the outback had left the countryside tinder dry and braced for the worst. Then, on Saturday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=8080\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NATURE<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8082,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8080\/revisions\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}