{"id":2257333,"date":"2021-03-02T12:19:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T18:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vxartnews-newspack.newspackstaging.com\/?page_id=2121656"},"modified":"2021-05-13T08:48:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T13:48:55","slug":"west","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vxartnews.com\/west\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Energy News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\t<div\n\t\tclass=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles  wpnbha show-image image-alignbehind ts-4 is-3 is-landscape  has-text-align-left\"\n\t\tstyle=\"\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t<style id=\"newspack-blocks-inline-css\" type=\"text\/css\">\t\t.wpnbha article .entry-title {\n\t\t\tfont-size: 1.2em;\n\t\t}\n\t\t.wpnbha .entry-meta {\n\t\t\tdisplay: flex;\n\t\t\tflex-wrap: 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