{"id":1003,"date":"2005-02-04T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2005-02-04T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T00:00:40","slug":"aurora_colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Aurora, Colorado&#8217;s search for water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We midwesterners have plenty of water, while those in the fast growing western states are scrambling. Aurora, Colorado is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&amp;ned=us&amp;q=aurora+water&amp;btnG=Search+News\">buying farmer&#8217;s water rights<\/a> <i>and<\/i> encouraging the use of low-water Xeriscape plants in an attempt to manage demand amid a housing boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We midwesterners have plenty of water, while those in the fast growing western states are scrambling. Aurora, Colorado is buying farmer&#8217;s water rights and encouraging the use of low-water Xeriscape plants in an attempt to manage demand amid a housing boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}