{"id":40531,"date":"2017-10-20T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40531"},"modified":"2017-10-19T17:24:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T21:24:13","slug":"why-the-lights-are-still-off-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/why-the-lights-are-still-off-in-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Lights Are Still Off in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DYWe1ATOzV8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ReasonTV<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 19 Oct 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government set the stage for a post-hurricane catastrophe.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nPuerto Rico was set up for disaster well before Hurricane Maria hit. Revoked tax breaks, needlessly expensive imports, and crippling debt all led to a shoddy infrastructure that&#8217;s still without power on most of the island. <\/p>\n<p>On the latest &#8220;Mostly Weekly,&#8221; Andrew Heaton explores: how did Puerto Rico get screwed over well before the lights went out, and how do we get them back on?<\/p>\n<p>Mostly Weekly is hosted by Andrew Heaton with headwriter Sarah Rose Siskind.<br \/>\nScript by Sarah Rose Siskind with writing assistance from Andrew Heaton, Brian Sack, and Justin Monticello<br \/>\nEdited by Sarah Rose Siskind and Austin Bragg<br \/>\nProduced by Meredith and Austin Bragg.<br \/>\nTheme Song: Frozen by Surfer Blood. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReasonTV Published on 19 Oct 2017 The government set the stage for a post-hurricane catastrophe. &#8212;&#8211; Puerto Rico was set up for disaster well before Hurricane Maria hit. Revoked tax breaks, needlessly expensive imports, and crippling debt all led to a shoddy infrastructure that&#8217;s still without power on most of the island. On the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,13],"tags":[71,497,1006,920,661],"class_list":["post-40531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-usa","tag-debt","tag-electricity","tag-elonmusk","tag-puertorico","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-axJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40532,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40531\/revisions\/40532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}