{"id":59999,"date":"2016-08-18T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59999"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:02:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:02:48","slug":"the-best-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59999","title":{"rendered":"The Best Among Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when flooding in Louisiana was a massive crisis &#8211; when we had a Republican President?<\/p>\n<p>The Cajuns are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/16\/us\/louisiana-flooding\/\">seeing to their own rescue &#8211; 15,000 of them<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">They&#8217;re known as the &#8220;Cajun Navy,&#8221; and in recent days they&#8217;ve become possibly the nation&#8217;s most important neighborhood watch.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Troy Green, from Ascension Parish just south of Baton Rouge, loaded up his boat after hearing the Cajun Navy needed a few good sailors.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">He drove to East Baton Rouge Parish where the National Guard had a staging area.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;I am here to help,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Where do you need me?&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">They paired him with a local man and the two spent a full day pulling people &#8212; at least two of them in wheelchairs &#8212; out of flooded houses.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">All while Obama golfed.<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--instagram\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when flooding in Louisiana was a massive crisis &#8211; when we had a Republican President? The Cajuns are seeing to their own rescue &#8211; 15,000 of them: They&#8217;re known as the &#8220;Cajun Navy,&#8221; and in recent days they&#8217;ve become possibly the nation&#8217;s most important neighborhood watch. Troy Green, from Ascension Parish just south of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59999","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60000,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59999\/revisions\/60000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}