{"id":182121,"date":"2015-12-13T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/13\/the-stupid-it-burns-us-2\/"},"modified":"2015-12-13T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:26:00","slug":"the-stupid-it-burns-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/13\/the-stupid-it-burns-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stupid, It Burns Us!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JcA0x.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JcA0x.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>The good people of Woodland, North Carolina have defeated a solar power plant in their community, because <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2015\/12\/north-carolina-citizenry-defeat-pernicious-big-solar-plan-to-suck-up-the-sun\/\">they don&#8217;t want it sucking the sunlight away from the crops<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>No, I am not joking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The citizens of Woodland, N.C. have spoken loud and clear: They don&#8217;t want none of them highfalutin solar panels in their good town. They scare off the kids. &#8220;All the young people are going to move out,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com\/2015\/12\/08\/woodland-rejects-solar-farm\/\">warned Bobby Mann<\/a>, a local resident concerned about the future of his burg. Worse, Mann said, the solar panels would suck up all the energy from the Sun. <\/p>\n<p>Another resident\u2014a retired science teacher, no less\u2014expressed concern that a proposed solar farm would block photosynthesis, and prevent nearby plants from growing. Jane Mann then went on to add that there seemed to have been a lot of cancer deaths in the area, and that no one could tell her solar panels didn&#8217;t cause cancer. \u201cI want information,&#8221; Mann said. &#8220;Enough is enough.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>These comments were reported not in The Onion, but rather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com\/2015\/12\/08\/woodland-rejects-solar-farm\/\">by the<i> Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald<\/i><\/a>. They came during a Woodland Town Council meeting in which Strata Solar Company sought to rezone an area northeast of the town, off of US Highway 258, to build a solar farm. The council not only rejected the proposal, it went a step further, voting for a complete moratorium on solar farms.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To quote the movie <i>Billie Madison<\/i>, &#8220;What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever  heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even  close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone  in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no  points, and may God have mercy on your soul.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good people of Woodland, North Carolina have defeated a solar power plant in their community, because they don&#8217;t want it sucking the sunlight away from the crops. No, I am not joking: The citizens of Woodland, N.C. have spoken loud and clear: They don&#8217;t want none of them highfalutin solar panels in their good &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,1020,985,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-legislation","category-regulation","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}