{"id":14951,"date":"2013-10-17T21:54:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T03:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=14951"},"modified":"2013-10-17T21:54:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T03:54:57","slug":"hydro-fracking-grows-a-set-of-billion-dollar-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/17\/hydro-fracking-grows-a-set-of-billion-dollar-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydro-Fracking Grows a Set of Billion-Dollar Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>Good<\/strong> read, but I just like the title&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hydro-fracking has been the most important, and most controversial, technological breakthrough to the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>US<\/strong> oil boom. But as the story continues, the fracking <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>technology<\/strong> just gets better and better. 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Read on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>via Daily Reckoning http:\/\/dailyreckoning.com\/hydro-fracking-grows-a-set-of-billion-dollar-balls\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hydro-Fracking Grows a Set of Billion-Dollar Balls - And That was How it Went<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/17\/hydro-fracking-grows-a-set-of-billion-dollar-balls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hydro-Fracking Grows a Set of Billion-Dollar Balls - And That was How it Went\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Good read, but I just like the title&#8230; &nbsp; Hydro-fracking has been the most important, and most controversial, technological breakthrough to the US oil boom. 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