{"id":3513,"date":"2009-09-22T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2009-09-22T17:14:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T21:14:05","slug":"going-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/22\/going-under\/","title":{"rendered":"going under&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">I&#8217;ve wondered what it would&#8217;ve been like to live in New Orleans when Katrina came through. The hurricane itself passed in hours, but in the days that followed, it kept on giving. I wonder when it dawned on people how much it would effect their lives forever. Well, I think I got a taste of that yesterday.<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">It&#8217;s been raining here for weeks. We&#8217;ve had a drought for a few years, so the torrents of rain were welcome [for a while], but then it started getting old. Our dogs have taken to barking at the rain these last few days. Yesterday, some friends called from Oregon. They&#8217;d seen the news. They&#8217;re coming back today and wondered if they would have trouble driving home. I didn&#8217;t know, so I started watching Atlanta television [we&#8217;re 60 miles north at twice the elevation]. It went from bad to worse, with more coming. This morning, the city is shut down [maybe &quot;going under&quot; better describes it].<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/alt.coxnewsweb.com\/cnishared\/tools\/shared\/mediahub\/05\/18\/27\/slideshow_1271857_Northside_@_Woodward_Way.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"justify\">North Georgia where we live is a soggy mess with overfull streams, but none of the flooding seen in Atlanta. It&#8217;ll be a long time coming before things approximate normalcy there&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve wondered what it would&#8217;ve been like to live in New Orleans when Katrina came through. The hurricane itself passed in hours, but in the days that followed, it kept on giving. I wonder when it dawned on people how much it would effect their lives forever. Well, I think I got a taste of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}