{"id":3190,"date":"2008-08-30T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2008-08-30T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T20:14:48","slug":"gustav-you-little-bastard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3190","title":{"rendered":"Gustav, You Little Bastard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gustav is expected to achieve Category Five status, equal in category to Katrina<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (<a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hV8IUkBvMnrmUrStIngJR1XoW7zA\">AFP<\/a>) \u2014 Desperate to avoid a repeat of the Katrina catastrophe in 2005, New Orleans began mandatory evacuations Saturday as another deadly hurricane, Gustav, bore down on the city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/ondeadline\/2008\/08\/traffic-crawls.html\">Traffic crawls on major route out of New Orleans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2008\/08\/30\/campaigns-weigh-in-on-gustav-preparations\/\">Campaigns Weigh In on Gustav Preparations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also today <strong>Fox News<\/strong> anchor <strong>Chris Wallace <\/strong>reported that Republicans indeed are considering \u201ccurtailing or suspending\u201d the convention. He said Sen. McCain, in a taped interview scheduled to air on the network Sunday, told Fox News \u201cthe festivities\u201d around his presidential nomination would be inappropriate \u201cwhile Americans were in trouble.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gustav is expected to achieve Category Five status, equal in category to Katrina NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) \u2014 Desperate to avoid a repeat of the Katrina catastrophe in 2005, New Orleans began mandatory evacuations Saturday as another deadly hurricane, Gustav, bore down on the city. Traffic crawls on major route out of New Orleans Campaigns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}