{"id":2941,"date":"2011-05-23T19:42:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T19:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2011-05-23T19:42:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T19:42:26","slug":"close_to_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2941","title":{"rendered":"Close To Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the sirens started blaring across Minneapolis yesterday, I didn&#8217;t pay much attention to them. Like a lot of urban residents (especially those of us in the Midwest), I don&#8217;t give much thought to natural disasters in general or tornadoes in particular. Of course, tornadoes are quite capable of striking metropolitan areas and <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2011\/05\/23\/minneapolis-storm-folo\/\">one did exactly that in north Minneapolis<\/a>, just a few miles from my place in downtown. It caused extensive damage and, to make matters worse, the North Side is already struggling with the recession&#8217;s aftermath. Best wishes to my fellow Minneapolitans as they rebuild their neighborhoods. I won&#8217;t so casually ignore those sirens in the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the sirens started blaring across Minneapolis yesterday, I didn&#8217;t pay much attention to them. Like a lot of urban residents (especially those of us in the Midwest), I don&#8217;t give much thought to natural disasters in general or tornadoes in particular. Of course, tornadoes are quite capable of striking metropolitan areas and one did <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2941' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Lr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}