{"id":2403,"date":"2006-03-28T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2006-03-28T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T12:34:00","slug":"light-sweet-porridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/03\/28\/08\/34\/light-sweet-porridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Light, Sweet Porridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/03\/26\/ING3PHRU681.DTL\">An average of more than 7 calories [29.3 kJ] of fossil fuel is burned up for every calorie of energy we get from our food. This means that in eating my 400-calorie [1.7 MJ] breakfast, I will, in effect, have consumed 2,800 calories [11.7 MJ] of fossil fuel energy. (Some researchers claim the ratio is as high as 10 to 1.) But this is only an average. My cup of coffee gives me just a few calories of energy, but to process 1 pound of coffee requires more than 8,000 calories [33.4 MJ] of fossil-fuel energy &#8212; the equivalent energy found in nearly a quart [.94 L] of crude oil, 30 cubic feet [850 L] of natural gas or about 2.5 pounds [1.1 kg] of coal.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Old but good: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/TheOilWeEat.html\">The Oil We Eat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An average of more than 7 calories [29.3 kJ] of fossil fuel is burned up for every calorie of energy we get from our food. This means that in eating my 400-calorie [1.7 MJ]&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}