{"id":736,"date":"2007-04-19T05:56:51","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T11:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/19\/a-river-ran-through-it\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T05:56:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T11:56:51","slug":"a-river-ran-through-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"A River Ran Through It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe it&#8217;s been ten years since the Grand Forks flood.<\/p>\n<p>To give credit where it&#8217;s due, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/357\/story\/1120555.html\">Nick Coleman writes an excellent column<\/a> on the subject:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The apocalypse came with ice and fire. I was among the many journalists who covered the disaster and I will never forget the sensation of standing in freezing water in hip boots while ashes fell on my head from the sky. All we needed was Charlton Heston to send Egyptian chariots into the water and I would&#8217;ve sworn we were all extras in a remake of &#8220;The Ten Commandments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ten years later, it still seems like something biblical happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing, and check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandforksherald.com\/\">Grand Forks Herald&#8217;s coverage<\/a> of the anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe it&#8217;s been ten years since the Grand Forks flood. To give credit where it&#8217;s due, Nick Coleman writes an excellent column on the subject: The apocalypse came with ice and fire. I was among the many journalists who covered the disaster and I will never forget the sensation of standing in freezing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}