{"id":93,"date":"2005-09-02T12:06:43","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T19:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=93"},"modified":"2005-09-02T12:07:42","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T19:07:42","slug":"katrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2005\/09\/katrina\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like so many oth\u00aders, I feel com\u00adpelled to add to the blog\u00adflood of words about Hur\u00adricane Kat\u00adrina (and I pity any child of that name!). My own words seem inad\u00adequate; I don\u2019t have Shel\u00adley\u2019s<\/a> lyr\u00adi\u00adcism<\/a>, or Cecily\u2019s<\/a> per\u00adspect\u00adive<\/a>, or <\/a>con\u00adsist\u00adency<\/a>. I\u2019ve nev\u00ader even been to New Orleans, so I have no pho\u00adtos to add to the store of what was there. I have no idea wheth\u00ader New Orleans will be rebuilt, although it\u2019s obvi\u00adous it will nev\u00ader be the same again. I appre\u00adci\u00adate people who say that now build\u00ading codes can be developed and enforced to with\u00adstand hur\u00adricanes, but worry about what the costs of those build\u00adings will do to the poor who already can\u00ad\u2019t afford reas\u00adon\u00adable accomodation. <\/p>\n

It seems large parts of the dam\u00adage and destruc\u00adtion were pre\u00advent\u00adable, much of the pain and hor\u00adror could have been ameli\u00ador\u00adated. What does this do to the people who have seen it, exper\u00adi\u00adenced it? What sort of night\u00admares will they relive in their dreams and pass on to their chil\u00addren? And what sort of les\u00adsons will be drawn? Will the sys\u00adtems to hold back the water be designed and built with the same determ\u00adin\u00ada\u00adtion as in Hol\u00adland after the massive floods in 1953<\/a> that killed almost 2000 people? (60% of the Dutch pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion lives on land that is under sea level). I can\u00ad\u2019t help think\u00ading of that old song that some\u00adhow still seems to ask many of the right ques\u00adtions \u2014 \u201cThe answers, my friend, are blow\u00ading in the wind, the answers are blow\u00ading in the wind\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like so many oth\u00aders, I feel com\u00adpelled to add to the blog\u00adflood of words about Hur\u00adricane Kat\u00adrina (and I pity any child of that name!). My own words seem inad\u00adequate; I don\u2019t have Shel\u00adley\u2019s lyr\u00adi\u00adcism, or Cecily\u2019s per\u00adspect\u00adive, or con\u00adsist\u00adency. I\u2019ve nev\u00ader even been to New Orleans, so I have no pho\u00adtos to add to \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cKat\u00adrina\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[21],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-katrina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}