{"id":2572,"date":"2024-07-08T10:24:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:28:04","slug":"arent-we-smarter-than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2024\/07\/08\/arent-we-smarter-than\/","title":{"rendered":"Aren&#8217;t We Smarter Than The Nabateans?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s what the ancients taught in school, <br>the Nabateans too, <br>to the sun god you must pray &nbsp;&nbsp; <br>for sunny skies of blue. <br>But many times that didn&#8217;t work <br>and sunny hopes were foiled, <br>they should have asked the gods for clues &nbsp;&nbsp; <br>on where to drill for oil. <br>Today the sun is worshipped still <br>with oil scorned too soon. <br>It&#8217;s back to what the ancients taught <br>and Nabatean doom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:06172023                   <br>www.the randompoet.com) &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; selected sources include: Jakob Puckett-realclearenergy.org-7\/18\/2022-War on Fossil Fuels; Newton B. Jones-International Brotherhood of Boilermakers-boilermakers.org-5\/9\/2023-War on Fossil Fuels Continues; Farhad Manjoo-nytimes.com-03\/24\/2022-We&#8217;re in a Fossil Fuels War; Brad Johnson-thetexan.news-6\/29\/2022-War on Fossil Fuels Drives Uncertainty Among Texas Oil and Gas Producers; Sebastien Melo-reuters.com-9\/15\/2021-In Midwest First, Illinois Bans Fossil Fuels Electricity Sources; Julia Simon-npr.org-3\/2\/2023-China Builds More New Coal Plants Than Rest of the World: &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s what the ancients taught in school, the Nabateans too, to the sun god you must pray &nbsp;&nbsp; for sunny &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2024\/07\/08\/arent-we-smarter-than\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aren&#8217;t We Smarter Than The Nabateans?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}