{"id":5192,"date":"2016-09-29T15:01:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5192"},"modified":"2016-09-29T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T05:01:19","slug":"why-south-australia-had-a-state-wide-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/why-south-australia-had-a-state-wide-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Why South Australia had a state wide blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/final-sa.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two things happened in South Australia yesterday. Firstly, there was a big storm. An absolutely massive storm. A yuuuuge storm, as Donald Trump would say. The biggest storm in 52 years. Then that storm knocked down a bunch of massive electricity transmission towers. Twenty-two of them, to be precise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two things are really surprising about this to me:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A Junkee article is the voice of reason and not a recounting of the latest Bachelor episode.<\/li>\n<li>Politicians are that stupid to believe or worse\u00a0perpetuate that renewable energy is to blame and something we should move away from!\u00a0Are you freakin&#8217; serious?!!!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/junkee.com\/south-australian-blackout-nothing-renewable-energy-stop-blaming\/86269\">The SA Blackout Had Nothing To Do With Renewable Energy, So Politicians Should Stop Blaming It<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two things happened in South Australia yesterday. Firstly, there was a big storm. An absolutely massive storm. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}