{"id":8610,"date":"2010-08-29T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T10:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/29\/happy-anniversary-katrina-hitt\/"},"modified":"2010-08-29T10:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T10:26:27","slug":"happy-anniversary-katrina-hitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/29\/happy-anniversary-katrina-hitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary Katrina Hitting Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, on August 29th, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the coast of Louisiana with sustained winds of 125 mph.  In what Republicans at the time claimed to be an utterly unrelated event, New Orleans was devastated by a flood around the same time.  Apparently, New Orleans remains pretty much still devastated. Well, the poor parts do, other parts have been fixed up, I hear.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-c0e1b5d25821c257aad820b62bfe6d06-katrina_ignoring_the_continental_land_mass.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-c0e1b5d25821c257aad820b62bfe6d06-katrina_ignoring_the_continental_land_mass.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scientists had predicted that a hurricane like Katrina would hit New Orleans and do pretty much what it did.  So, we call August 29th &#8220;Oh fuck, we should have listened to the scientists&#8221; day.<\/p>\n<p>So, happy &#8220;Oh Fuck&#8221; day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, on August 29th, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the coast of Louisiana with sustained winds of 125 mph. In what Republicans at the time claimed to be an utterly unrelated event, New Orleans was devastated by a flood around the same time. Apparently, New Orleans remains pretty much still devastated. Well, the poor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/29\/happy-anniversary-katrina-hitt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Anniversary Katrina Hitting Louisiana<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2eS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610"}],"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=8610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}