{"id":627457,"date":"2018-09-19T09:25:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T15:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=627457"},"modified":"2018-09-19T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T16:12:14","slug":"land-commissioner-candidates-offer-differing-visions-for-solar-and-wind-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/09\/land-commissioner-candidates-offer-differing-visions-for-solar-and-wind-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Land commissioner candidates offer differing visions for solar and wind power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_627463\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-627463\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/SLO-vid-771x445.jpg\" alt=\"Wind turbines on state trust land.\" width=\"771\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/SLO-vid-771x445.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/SLO-vid-336x194.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/SLO-vid-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/SLO-vid.jpg 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Still from State Land Office video<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wind turbines on state trust land.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Inside the New Mexico State Land Office, current land commissioner Aubrey Dunn sits at a dark wood desk ringed with a painting of the Rio Grande Gorge, a saddle, and a pair of leather chaps pinned to the wall, all homages to a lifetime spent on cattle ranches. But it\u2019s the decor outside that tends to draw more attention: Dunn installed a model pump jack in front of the State Land Office building on Old Santa Fe Trail. Its bobbing head \u2014 powered by a solar panel \u2014 is a familiar sight in oil country.<\/p>\n<p>From that desk, he manages the state\u2019s land trust: 9 million acres of surface land and 13 million acres of mineral estate. It\u2019s his job to maximize revenue from those acres through leases for businesses, grazing and rights-of-way, royalties from mining potash, coal, salt and caliche, and above all, fossil fuels, which accounts for 92.7 percent of the revenue for the office. In a single oil and gas lease bonus sale held in July, the office brought in $15.4 million, which is more money than any other land use generates in a year.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn has served as land commissioner for four years and opted out of re-election for the spot to instead try for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich\u2019s seat, though he has since withdrawn from that campaign. He took the pumpjack down in July, with plans to relocate it to San Juan College in Farmington, in case his successor doesn\u2019t appreciate it.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>About this article<\/h3>\n<p>This article comes from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmindepth.com\/2018\/09\/18\/land-commissioner-candidates-offer-differing-visions-for-solar-and-wind-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Mexico In Depth<\/a>. Sign up for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmindepth.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=1d2ab093d81b992e50978b363&amp;id=9294743d38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Related<\/h3>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/09\/industry-showers-campaign-funds-on-lyons-who-may-be-their-future-landlord\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Industry showers campaign funds on Lyons, who may be their future landlord<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/09\/dunn-doesnt-believe-land-commissioner-candidates-will-hold-oil-and-gas-accountable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dunn doesn\u2019t believe land commissioner candidates will hold oil and gas accountable<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The decorative oil derrick symbolizes the office\u2019s deeply entrenched financial loyalties to the industry, but it\u2019s also served as testament to the office\u2019s independence. Dunn is at least the second land commissioner to post one out front. In 1979, then-commissioner Alex Armijo also installed one, and his victory in a city lawsuit that declared Armijo\u2019s \u201ceducational exhibit\u201d a zoning violation affirmed that the commissioner\u2019s authority over state lands pre-empted other interests.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, the commissioner is beholden to many interests and accountable to few. Though there\u2019s an advisory committee that provides recommendations, there\u2019s no real oversight other than the voters who weigh in every four years. The commissioner simply strives to produce revenue for the Land Grant Permanent Fund, which are then invested and returns paid out to 22 beneficiaries, including public schools, universities, the state penitentiary, and state parks. Public schools receive 85 percent of the income generated by the office, covering about a third of their budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe limits to a commissioner\u2019s authority to do different things with state trust lands is almost just the limits of their imagination,\u201d says Ben Shelton, with Conservation Voters New Mexico. \u201cThis is a land manager that has more authority than almost any position in the western states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That freedom has state Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard of Los Alamos, the Democratic candidate for the job this year, looking at increasing revenue from wind and solar on state trust lands, with hopes that would support expanding early childhood education.<\/p>\n<p>While 11 renewable energy projects are running on state lands and producing enough power for more than 1 million homes, the office estimates they contribute just 0.9 percent of its annual revenue. But renewables advocates point to untapped potential.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>National trends show solar and wind on the rise. The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts wind generation will increase by 8 percent and solar power by 24 percent this year.<\/p>\n<p>How New Mexico capitalizes on that growing market remains to be seen. Six of the top 10 states for solar growth over the last decade ring New Mexico, and five leading the way for wind power cluster to the east, according to a report by Environment America. Despite being surrounded by what appears to be a ready climate and thriving nearby markets for renewable power, New Mexico didn\u2019t make either list.<\/p>\n<p>With the U.S. moving to the lead in global oil production and business booming in the Permian Basin in the southeastern New Mexico, no one imagines a swift end to the oil and gas industry or the revenue it generates for the state. It\u2019s not an either\/or conversation about swapping one for the other, advocates say, but a chance to add to and diversify revenue sources. The two industries, oil and gas and renewables, are often pitted as opposites, but as Shelton points out, oil and gas companies rank among the top solar consumers in the state: lots of pump jacks in San Juan County are powered by solar panels, just like the one that was in front of the state land office did.<\/p>\n<p>Between the work of his previous tenure as public land commissioner and his more recent terms on the Public Regulation Commission, Republican candidate Patrick Lyons says he thinks he\u2019s probably worked on every renewable energy project in the state in some capacity.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s running to return to an office he held from 2003 to 2010, during which time he issued the first wind lease on state trust lands. He points, repeatedly, to the job\u2019s responsibility to make money for school children, and argues it\u2019s tough to fulfill that duty focusing on wind power. How much time and attention goes to those projects under his watch, he says, would also depend on how much the Legislature increases the renewable portfolio standard for the state.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_627461\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-627461\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/GarciaRichard-771x512-771x512.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Garcia Richard\" width=\"771\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/GarciaRichard-771x512.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/GarciaRichard-771x512-336x223.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/GarciaRichard-771x512-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Elizabeth Miller \/ New Mexico In Depth<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Garcia Richard<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>If the road ahead leads to more renewables<\/h3>\n<p>Garcia Richard, with bobbed brown hair and a habit of rolling her r\u2019s through local place names, particularly those for her grandfather\u2019s ranch in northern Quay County, was still a full-time school teacher when the bottom dropped out of the economy in 2008. She recalls ripples hitting classrooms in the form of shortened school weeks and curtailed raises for teachers. The experience drilled in some tough lessons about fickle funding sources. After three terms in the state Legislature, she\u2019s turned to the public land commissioner\u2019s race, she says, to make a difference for schools by bringing the perspective of an educator to the office.<\/p>\n<p>She would also be the first woman to hold the job, and she\u2019s concerned her gender is fueling a conversation around her qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a cool glass ceiling left to break. It feels good,\u201d she says. \u201cJust because of the nature of this seat, people don\u2019t typically picture a woman holding it \u2013 do you have the negotiating power? Can you be tough, you know, negotiating on behalf of the state? It\u2019s just funny that people don\u2019t really picture a woman doing that. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state land office oversees two funds, one fed by royalties from and the sale of nonrenewable resources like fossil fuels and minerals, and one fed by more recurrent sources, like grazing and commercial lease payments, rights-of-way permits, and fees \u2014 categories that include income from solar and wind energy production. Garcia Richard has set her sights on this second fund, the Land Maintenance Fund, with a goal of seeing renewable energy pay for universal access to early childhood education. State policymakers say they prioritize it, but perennially battle over how to pay for it. Growing renewable energy projects would be the right move for so many reasons, she says, stable funding and slowing climate change among them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s all this talk all the time about the potential, the potential, the potential \u2014 how many days of sunshine we have, how windy it is on the east side \u2014 but there\u2019s been no champion,\u201d she says while sitting on a couch in her campaign manager\u2019s house in north Santa Fe, bracketed by campaign posters with near life-sized portraits. Her work sprawls from daytime hours spent as curriculum coordinator for the Pojoaque schools to an evening of phone-banking.<\/p>\n<p>Oil and gas will continue to play a part in raising funding for schools she says, but she argues the enabling act that created the commissioner\u2019s position \u201cdoesn\u2019t say the fiduciary responsibility is at all costs.\u201d It reads \u201cin the best interest,\u201d she says \u201cand in the best interest to me means sustainable use in order for there to be any resource after we\u2019re gone, so this isn\u2019t the only generation to benefit.\u201d Increasing use of renewables could go into the fund that pays for long-term planning for the state\u2019s watersheds, ecosystems and wildlife \u2014 taking care of the state and its natural resources so there\u2019s some left for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>When Ray Powell, a previous land commissioner and candidate this year until health reasons precluded another run, knew he had to end his bid, he recruited Garcia Richard. Renewable energy was at the top of an \u201calmost unlimited\u201d list of things he wanted to get done in a return to the office, which would have been his third, following terms from 1993 to 2002 and 2011 to 2014. During those previous stints, his staff studied where to develop solar, wind and geothermal projects, and his takeaway, he says, was, \u201cit doesn\u2019t take a lot of space, if you do it right, to generate enormous amounts of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says he had $700 million in renewable energy projects lined out when he left and that when Dunn took over, he abandoned those projects. Garcia Richard has been touting that figure, but pressed for more detail, had none. State land office annual reports mention in-progress renewable energy projects that would have produced $500 million over their lifetimes, which stretch to 35 or 40 years. Dunn says it\u2019s not true that he canceled anything, and that he only postponed two solar bids scheduled for his third day on the job, taking 90 days to review them, then making some changes to secure more money for the state.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia Richard lists some big picture ideas for moving forward. State trust lands were allocated in a checkerboard in a system four square miles per township. The land office map shows tiny, pale blue squares the state owns scattered amid federal and private land. They\u2019re not even close to adjacent unless land has been exchanged or purchased; in those places, they\u2019ve been assembled Tetris-like into blocky clumps. These few consolidated spots, like one in Curry County on the eastern state line, she says, could be ideal for wind development. State trust lands that are now just empty lots next to strip malls could host small-scale, distributed solar installations. A model for that system is emerging in the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative that serves Taos, Rio Arriba and Colfax counties. Kit Carson has set a course to provide all solar power during daylight hours on sunny days by 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas, though, for generating renewables revenue for the state go beyond simply leasing land to companies providing energy within the state.<\/p>\n<p>The state of California\u2019s aggressive schedule for 100 percent zero-emission energy sources by 2045 also fuels visions of an export crop for New Mexico. The timing for peak demand in California lines up with peak output from eastern New Mexico. Generator lead lines, or gen-tie lines, that connect energy projects to the grid \u2014 like the SunZia Transmission Line that would link central New Mexico wind generation facilities to western Arizona \u2014 could be built on state lands. Both of the above could make money for the state and its schools, Garcia Richard says, if those leases site on state trust lands.<\/p>\n<p>But has she crunched the numbers?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d she says almost before the question is finished. \u201cI have some preliminary understanding of how many acres would be ideal and available. \u2026 But I don\u2019t have a full picture of the revenue potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat it\u2019s going to be is creating a culture and a direction and an impetus. Providing leadership,\u201d she says. \u201cHow far will we get in terms of building it out? I actually do not know the answer to that question, but I\u2019m committed to pursuing it because, for so many reasons, I believe this is the way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one has a full picture, says Shelton, of Conservation Voters New Mexico, which has endorsed Garcia Richard: \u201cThat\u2019s one of the things we\u2019re asking for, and that Stephanie [Garcia Richard] has indicated a willingness to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not about reframing the entire energy balance for the state as much as just posing a few questions, he says, \u201cand frequently, they\u2019re not very expensive answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dunn says he has run the numbers, and by his count, the math isn\u2019t that promising, though it\u2019s worth noting his parameters seem to have been set for large-scale wind installations. High-speed wind concentrates in eastern and central counties, so Dunn counts just 475,000 of the state\u2019s 9 million acres of trust land as suitable for wind farm development. If five turbines were installed on each acre, he estimates the leases would earn the state $23 million annually. That\u2019s about 3.6 percent of the royalties expected from oil and gas this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t really replace fossil fuels with renewables from an income standpoint,\u201d he says. \u201cFrom an energy standpoint, yes, but if your job is to create income for beneficiaries as a trustee, you\u2019re not going to be able to replace it with renewables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not that we need to erase oil and gas development off state trust lands and replace it with renewables,\u201d Shelton counters. \u201cThe message is, there\u2019s money that we\u2019re leaving on the table by not developing renewables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All it would take to secure more of that money, he says, is a land commissioner who made it the priority.<\/p>\n<p>Renewable energy advocates argue that accounting for smaller-scale installations and new policies that could give the state income from selling power, not just leasing the land for wind turbines, could shift those numbers. And New Mexicans might be ready to pursue this industry given the boom or bust cycles of the fossil fuel industry. In recent years, those cycles corresponded with budget shortfalls that prompted the creation of a stabilization fund in 2017 as a buffer against future volatility in energy prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just need to get off this rollercoaster,\u201d Shelton says. \u201cSchools don\u2019t need $30 million one day and $14 million the next, so we have to diversify the revenue sources coming off state trust lands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simply saying the acres are open for business and the land manager is looking for renewable energy development could spur private companies to seriously look at building wind farms or solar installations in New Mexico, based on testimony at the U.S. Department of Interior\u2019s Royalty Policy Committee meeting in June. Marisa Mitchell with Intersect Power spoke about proposed recommendations for increasing wind and solar projects on federal public lands that would address rights-of-way, acreage rent schedules, megawatt capacity fees, lease and grant renewal processes, and prioritizing applications for six southwestern states, including New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Often, the biggest expense for these projects, she said, is acquiring the land. While the per-acre minimum price for coal leases is $3 and oil and gas is $2, solar is between $16.77 and $914 and wind $1.68 to $91.31, according to her presentation. Making a few changes around permitting, the private industry representative said, \u201creally gets us to a place where there will be interest in federal land.\u201d It stands to reason if the state made similar moves, its land might also be able to lure more of that business.<\/p>\n<p>As it is, the state is losing some of that business to private land, according to Dunn. Requirements for a bond to remove wind turbines at the end of their 35-year lifespan, for lease fees based on the planned number of turbines even if the developer later installs fewer, and for putting any development lasting more than five years out to bid all drive it away.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the state\u2019s wind capacity grew faster than any other state, adding more than 271 megawatts, according to the American Wind Energy Association, and the industry paid $5 million to $10 million last year in land lease payments to landowners in New Mexico. The state land office reported $245,997 in lease payments from wind energy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_627462\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-627462\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lyons-771x512-771x512.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Lyons\" width=\"771\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lyons-771x512.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lyons-771x512-336x223.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lyons-771x512-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Elizabeth Miller \/ New Mexico In Depth<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Lyons<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Staying the course<\/h3>\n<p>Half a dozen taxidermied deer and antelope heads are mounted in Patrick Lyons\u2019 office at the Public Regulation Commission, hanging above framed covers of the annual reports from his eight years leading the state land office. Bag clips and red cozies in a basket at the front of his office declare, \u201cVote Patrick H. Lyons Public Regulation Commission District 2,\u201d and he\u2019s now handing out nearly identical green cozies that read, \u201cVote Patrick H. Lyons Commission of Public Lands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His prior experience serving as land commissioner from 2003 to 2010 is his main talking point for this campaign. Before taking a seat on the commission, he was in the state Legislature, and one of the first things his assistant points out about his political career, gesturing to portraits of his children, is that he pursued elected office with the interests of a developmentally disabled daughter in mind. He calls being land commissioner the best job he\u2019s had because it raises money for school children and manages land, two of his lifelong passions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the most qualified person to be the commissioner of public land because we\u2019ve been there, we know what to do, we know how to raise money for the state,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights from his previous term include a three-way land exchange that brought a spur of the Union Pacific Railroad to New Mexico, and with it, a $2 billion investment and 600 permanent jobs (Union Pacific\u2019s figures from 2017 show $1.7 million in in-state purchases, $25.8 million in capital investment and 485 employees). The land the state acquired in that deal is now a wind farm, he says. He also points out that he increased revenue to record-setting levels while keeping spending by the office flat. Of course, those revenues are attributed to a coinciding increase in activity in New Mexico\u2019s oil and gas fields and a high oil price.<\/p>\n<p>Were he voted into the office, he\u2019d start by reviewing existing policies with the help of industry and outside consultants. Among the rules Lyons says he would target is the one Dunn put into place restricting oil and gas industry\u2019s use of the Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies eight states with water. He says people in the industry have told him that rule just moved their wells onto private lands, where they still draw from the same aquifer. Instead of regulating use of water from the Ogallala, he says, he\u2019d encourage companies to use other water sources.<\/p>\n<p>His previous round in the land commissioner\u2019s office included issuing the state\u2019s first wind lease. The state land office annual report from his first year declared the \u201cenergy answer may be \u2018blowing in the wind,\u2019\u201d and mentioned the state leasing 1,160 acres for a wind farm in April 2003. Companies had approached the state land office with the idea, he recalls now: \u201cWe said, \u2018Yeah, let\u2019s be the innovator. Let\u2019s try that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen turbines were installed on state trust land in Quay County in a wind farm totaling 136 turbines and expected to produce enough electricity to power a city twice the size of Santa Fe, according to the annual report. At that time, the state Legislature was still a year away from passing the Renewable Energy Act and setting a specific target for renewable power generation for utilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was solar before solar was cool,\u201d he jokes, and talks about slowly replacing the century-old windmills with solar panels to power pumps filling backcountry water tanks at his 15,000-acre ranch.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico ranked second in the nation for the number of wind turbines installed on state trust lands in 2005. By the end of his term, Lyons had approved wind leases for nearly 500 megawatts \u2014 estimated then as enough power for 250,000 homes \u2014 with a combined earning potential of $55 million over their 35-year lease terms.<\/p>\n<p>But now Lyons says wind and solar development on state trust land will increase when demand is spurred by the state Legislature, through increasing the amount of renewable energy public utilities are required to purchase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a big supporter of wind and solar,\u201d he says. \u201cI think we should expand that on state trust lands, but that\u2019s not just for the commissioner to do. That has to go back to the Legislature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The office\u2019s job, he says, is to be ready to encourage wind and solar development on state lands if the state Legislature votes to increase the renewable portfolio standard, currently set at 20 percent by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s going to be a push to expand that to 30, 40 or 50 percent \u2014 whatever they do \u2014 so when that happens, that\u2019s going to bring more development into the state of wind and solar,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s when we have to be ready to do that \u2014 to push ahead for development of wind and solar on state trust lands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state land office can\u2019t build those facilities, but could pursue the public-private partnerships to develop them. Yet even considering the potential to export wind power to states with a higher renewable standard, his outlook is tempered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can generate some revenue there,\u201d he says, \u201cbut you\u2019re not going to generate what oil and gas does.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National trends show solar and wind on the rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2238,119,3705,107,3659],"class_list":["post-627457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2018-election","tag-energy-policy","tag-pat-lyons","tag-roundhouse","tag-stephanie-garcia-richard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}