{"id":1923,"date":"2011-08-01T08:24:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T13:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2011-08-01T08:24:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T13:24:04","slug":"choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1923","title":{"rendered":"IF I HAD TO CHOOSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Debt ceiling is on everyone&#8217;s mind. One of the regrettable \u00a0upshots of this crisis is our government&#8217;s inability to govern. We move from one crisis to the next. There seems to be no plan. Most businesses have plans; Apple is perhaps the best example of this given how very successful the company has been.<\/p>\n<p>If I were to choose the most important issues going forward: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/earth-matters\/wilderness-resources\/photos\/7-lakes-and-rivers-that-are-drying-up\/bone-dry\">Water<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oe.energy.gov\/storage.htm\">energy storage<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/43968679\">economy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Debt ceiling is on everyone&#8217;s mind. One of the regrettable \u00a0upshots of this crisis is our government&#8217;s inability to govern. We move from one crisis to the next. There seems to be no plan. Most businesses have plans; Apple is perhaps the best example of this given how very successful the company has been. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1923\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IF I HAD TO CHOOSE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[826],"tags":[829,2537,2538],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-future","tag-economy","tag-energy-storage","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}