{"id":26320,"date":"2011-08-28T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26320"},"modified":"2011-08-28T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T13:17:28","slug":"who-cares-what-happens-to-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26320","title":{"rendered":"Who cares what happens to NYC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this hurricane, a category 1 hurricane, basically a strong rainstorm, is headed to New York City and everyone who is outside will get wet. The horrors of broken window panes and storm tossed boats really hit home when you watch reportage like this from Fox News;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=1131862902001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Nanny-mayor Bloomberg went on television last night to warn citizens to be careful with candles, which, apparently are somehow, fire hazards. Did you know that? I didn&#8217;t until Bloomberg told me. Geraldo Rivera was live on Fox News all night reporting that the Fox office building was getting wet. The horror of it all. He played clips from disaster movies when they came back from ads &#8211; it was all so much drama over a big rain storm. Don&#8217;t they realize how ridiculous they appear?<\/p>\n<p>Is there nothing else going on in the world? Does anyone really care if the streets of Manhattan get rained upon? Or if the vacationers at Fire Island have to cut short their vacations?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Now Irene is downgraded to a tropical storm. Think that&#8217;ll downgrade the news coverage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this hurricane, a category 1 hurricane, basically a strong rainstorm, is headed to New York &hellip; <a title=\"Who cares what happens to NYC?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26320\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who cares what happens to NYC?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}