{"id":82443,"date":"2022-06-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82443"},"modified":"2022-06-13T05:55:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T10:55:48","slug":"liftless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82443","title":{"rendered":"Liftless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Went to a graduation ceremony Friday evening. All the talk was about grad parties lacking balloons. There&#8217;s a helium shortage. Why?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blm.gov\/programs\/energy-and-minerals\/helium\/federal-helium-operations#:~:text=The%20Cliffside%20Gas%20Plant%20is%20down.&amp;text=UPDATED%204\/25\/2022%3A,CHEU)%20using%20private%20industry%20operators\">Helium is made at a plant in Texas<\/a>. It&#8217;s regulated by the federal government, the Bureau of Land Management. They shut it down in January.  Still not open.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>No word on whether they will be air &#8211; lifting helium from Germany. Maybe they could use a zeppelin?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Apparently, helium is white supremacist.<\/p><p><\/p><p>Or something.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Went to a graduation ceremony Friday evening. All the talk was about grad parties lacking balloons. There&#8217;s a helium shortage. Why? Helium is made at a plant in Texas. It&#8217;s regulated by the federal government, the Bureau of Land Management. They shut it down in January. Still not open. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82448,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82443\/revisions\/82448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}