{"id":587,"date":"2009-02-10T09:25:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=587"},"modified":"2009-02-11T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T18:57:00","slug":"victorian-bushfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2009\/02\/victorian-bushfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Bushfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aus\u00adtrali\u00adans learned so much from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ash_Wednesday_Bushfires\">Ash Wed\u00adnes\u00adday bush\u00adfires<\/a> (I was liv\u00ading in Mel\u00adbourne at the time and still vis\u00adit as often as I can); there was a sense that although every\u00adone knew bush\u00adfires are capri\u00adcious and dan\u00adger\u00adous, that there were things to do to mit\u00adig\u00adate them. That all changed this&nbsp;week.<\/p>\n<p>The com\u00adbin\u00ada\u00adtion of years of inad\u00adequate rain\u00adfall, record high tem\u00adper\u00adat\u00adures, and arson meant there was no escape, no hope for those caught in the bush\u00adfire\u2019s path. There are thou\u00adsands of people out there fight\u00ading for people and anim\u00adals, hop\u00ading and pray\u00ading for the rain that is the only solu\u00adtion. The Aus\u00adtrali\u00adan Broad\u00adcast\u00ading Cor\u00adpor\u00ada\u00adtion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/melbourne\/?nav=true\">Mel\u00adbourne news site<\/a> tells the&nbsp;story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can\u00ad\u2019t find the right words to express my sor\u00adrow and sym\u00adpath\u00adies for those who lost fam\u00adily and friends in this hor\u00adrif\u00adic way. All I can do is point people who want to help to some of the appro\u00adpri\u00adate ven\u00adues. There\u2019s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org.au\/vic\/services_emergencyservices_victorian-bushfires-appeal-2009.htm\">Aus\u00adtrali\u00adan Red Cross<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/salvos.org.au\/\">Aus\u00adtrali\u00adan Sal\u00adva\u00adtion Army<\/a>, and some organ\u00adisa\u00adtions to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abc.net.au\/victoria\/2009\/02\/help-for-animal.html#more\">help with anim\u00adals<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildlifevictoria.org.au\/cms\/index.php?option=com_wrapper&amp;view=wrapper&amp;Itemid=43\">wild\u00adlife<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aus\u00adtrali\u00adans learned so much from the Ash Wed\u00adnes\u00adday bush\u00adfires (I was liv\u00ading in Mel\u00adbourne at the time and still vis\u00adit as often as I can); there was a sense that although every\u00adone knew bush\u00adfires are capri\u00adcious and dan\u00adger\u00adous, that there were things to do to mit\u00adig\u00adate them. That all changed this&nbsp;week. The com\u00adbin\u00ada\u00adtion of years \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2009\/02\/victorian-bushfires\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cVic\u00adtori\u00adan Bushfires\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}