{"id":1238993,"date":"2023-10-01T16:40:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T16:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=26a028764a815fa8130f5155f7c3f506"},"modified":"2023-10-01T16:40:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T16:40:31","slug":"gas-storage-plant-and-new-pipeline-threaten-health-of-black-houston-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/01\/gas-storage-plant-and-new-pipeline-threaten-health-of-black-houston-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas Storage Plant and New Pipeline Threaten Health of Black Houston Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With their heads bowed, eyes shut, and hands locked, the Southwest Crossing Community Initiative starts every meeting with a prayer: &ldquo;Please, protect us from a deadly explosion.&rdquo; &ldquo;And please, cover us &hellip; and ease our minds.&rdquo; Southwest Crossing is an aging community in Houston where nearly 20 percent of residents are over 65. They know, as it is, the average American is expected to live only a...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/gas-storage-plant-and-new-pipeline-threaten-health-of-black-houston-community\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/gas-storage-plant-and-new-pipeline-threaten-health-of-black-houston-community\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As climate crisis threatens Texas&#8217;s energy grid, the government&#8217;s response is putting Black communities at greater risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3522,4220,4744,4,1221,876],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238994,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238993\/revisions\/1238994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}