{"id":1004,"date":"2007-11-19T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T17:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/19\/sidr\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T08:27:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:27:34","slug":"sidr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/19\/sidr\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As has been reported in various places, the death toll from Sidr has slowly and steadily climbed, topping 3,000 according to a fairly recent <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7100957.stm\">report <\/a>from the BBC.The Bangladesh Red Crescent is estimating that the death toll may reach 10,000.A half million homes have been destroyed, and a couple\/few million people displaced.Aid is getting to many areas though there are concerns of lack of coordination among agencies and between the aid agencies and the government, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7102020.stm\">some reports<\/a>.  The southwest has many regions where supplies and help have not yet arrived.The biggest problem right now seems to be lack of food, and that is also a long term problem with much of the rice crop destroyed in many places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As has been reported in various places, the death toll from Sidr has slowly and steadily climbed, topping 3,000 according to a fairly recent report from the BBC.The Bangladesh Red Crescent is estimating that the death toll may reach 10,000.A half million homes have been destroyed, and a couple\/few million people displaced.Aid is getting to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/19\/sidr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sidr<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5045],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5fhV1-sidr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28341,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/28341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}