{"id":949,"date":"2005-08-31T22:23:01","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T22:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=949"},"modified":"2005-08-31T22:23:01","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T22:23:01","slug":"exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"Exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take back what I said about how the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina could have been much worse.  Things look <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4203302.stm\">pretty freaking bad<\/a>.  Tens of thousands of refugees are beginning to pour into neighboring cities and states, putting what is sure to be a heavy strain on their social service networks.  I was talking with some friends earlier and we were wondering why Louisiana government leaders didn&#8217;t do more to structurally reinforce those levees in the event of a major hurricane.  The possibility that Lake Pontchartrain could spill over into the city has certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/01\/national\/nationalspecial\/01levee.html\">occurred to them before<\/a> (registration req&#8217;d).<br \/>\nOn the way home today, I saw that one of the local gas stations was selling gas for $2.99.  If we&#8217;re going to start paying European fuel prices, maybe we can also get European-style mass transit systems in our cities.<br \/>\nHaven&#8217;t gotten many questions in response to yesterday&#8217;s solicitation.  Remember, I&#8217;m only on loan for a few more days before I get transferred to the Paris branch library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take back what I said about how the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina could have been much worse. Things look pretty freaking bad. Tens of thousands of refugees are beginning to pour into neighboring cities and states, putting what is sure to be a heavy strain on their social service networks. I was talking with <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=949' 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-949","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\/s9Iwau-exodus","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","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=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}