{"id":1392,"date":"2014-01-23T05:53:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T12:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2014-11-11T06:30:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:30:03","slug":"orrin-pilkey-speaks-against-the-use-of-dredge-sand-on-unihabited-shakleford-banks-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/?p=1392","title":{"rendered":"Orrin Pilkey speaks against the use of dredge sand on unihabited Shackleford Banks, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Orrin H. Pilkey was quoted in the article <strong>N.C. coastal dredging plan irks beach communities, environmentalists<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI oppose it because I\u2019m so strongly in favor of the Park Service\u2019s \u2018let nature rip\u2019 policy,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd what I fear, and what others like myself fear, is that the Park Service is starting to waffle a little bit on this. I understand why. They\u2019re always under pressure to do something\u201d about erosion.<\/p>\n<p>Inlets expand and contract over time, Pilkey said, and Beaufort Inlet is expanding right now. \u201cShackleford Banks is doing what nature intended it to do,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/nc-coastal-dredging-plan-irks-beach-communities-environmentalists\/2014\/01\/18\/435e40c2-8082-11e3-9556-4a4bf7bcbd84_story.html?wprss=rss_national\">full article<\/a> in The Washington Post by Martha Waggoner published January 18, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Orrin H. Pilkey was quoted in the article N.C. coastal dredging plan irks beach communities, environmentalists: \u201cI oppose it because I\u2019m so strongly in favor of the Park Service\u2019s \u2018let nature rip\u2019 policy,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd what I fear, and what others like myself fear, is that the Park Service is starting to waffle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,49],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaufort-inlet","category-north-carolina","tag-dr-orrin-pilkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}