{"id":3120,"date":"2019-12-04T22:32:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2019-12-04T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:38:12","slug":"fire-is-medicine-the-tribes-burning-california-forests-to-save-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/2019\/12\/04\/fire-is-medicine-the-tribes-burning-california-forests-to-save-them\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fire is medicine&#8217;: the tribes burning California forests to save them"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k3rv8gfp-dbd98eed1eb5a45346145caa7c2b6e66 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"content__standfirst--wrapper\">\n<div class=\"gs-container\">\n<div class=\"content__main-column\">\n<div class=\"content__standfirst content__standfirst--immersive-article\" data-link-name=\"standfirst\" data-component=\"standfirst\">\n<p>For millennia, native people have used flames to protect the land. The US government outlawed the process for a century before recognizing its value<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop-cap\"><span class=\"drop-cap__inner\">W<\/span><\/span>hen Rick O\u2019Rourke walks with fire, the drip torch is an extension of his body. The mix of diesel and gasoline arcs up and out from the little wick at the end of the red metal can, landing on the ground as he takes bite after bite out of the dry vegetation in the shadow of the firs and oaks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content__main tonal__main tonal__main--tone-feature\">\n<div class=\"gs-container\">\n<div class=\"content__main-column content__main-column--article js-content-main-column \">\n<div class=\"content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body\" data-test-id=\"article-review-body\">\n<p>\u201cSome people are like gunslingers and some people are like artists who paint with fire,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m a little bit of both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/nov\/21\/wildfire-prescribed-burns-california-native-americans\">Read the article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3121,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions\/3121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}