{"id":2455,"date":"2007-02-25T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2007-02-25T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T02:32:00","slug":"2455","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2455","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Over at Backwards City, discussing Spike Lee&#8217;s powerful HBO documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/docs\/programs\/whentheleveesbroke\/\"><i>When the Levees Broke<\/i><\/a> (which, unfortunately, I&#8217;ve yet to see the entirety of), <a href=\"http:\/\/backwardscity.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/do-you-know-what-it-means-to-miss-new.html\">Gerry Canavan writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I sometimes wonder whether it&#8217;s Hurricane Katrina, 9\/11, Operation Enduring Freedom, or the tsunami that will come to be seen as the formative disaster of our time. I suppose the tragedy is that it&#8217;s all of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, I think the formative disaster of our time may have to be the nomination and election of George W. Bush as our nation&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p>Having someone competent at the helm would have gone a long way to mitigating those other disasters.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Backwards City, discussing Spike Lee&#8217;s powerful HBO documentary When the Levees Broke (which, unfortunately, I&#8217;ve yet to see the entirety of), Gerry Canavan writes: I sometimes wonder whether it&#8217;s Hurricane Katrina, 9\/11, Operation Enduring Freedom, or the tsunami that will come to be seen as the formative disaster of our time. I suppose &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2455\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}