{"id":9,"date":"2006-09-06T19:55:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T00:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tedatum.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-07-16T21:26:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T02:26:46","slug":"things-are-cool-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Things are COOL in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am away in Richmond, VA for a few days. Right after the big storm. A few trees down here and there but nothing major broken that I can see. Except for the TV coverage, life seems very normal. No conversation from residents about the storm. Ernesto? What was\u00a0that. HA! This is true where I stand, so don&#8217;t think what you are shown on TV is the whole story. It is only\u00a0a view of conditions from a producers point of view whos&#8217; objective is to sell air time.<\/p>\n<p>Me thinks our our public service weather and news channels have become national scare mongers every time a new\u00a0storm brews up. Yes, the storms\u00a0are hazardous, but so is everything else in nature. All I see are\u00a0the self appointed &#8220;heroes&#8221; standing in the rain, risking EVERYTHING just to warn\u00a0the entire U.S.\u00a0about a non event. &#8220;LOOK! I am getting wet because it is actually raining here. Praise me for being so brave to stand here and tell you this!&#8221; It is hard for them and me to keep it in perspective when they make\u00a0every storm is a national disaster. I think they need practice keeping\u00a0local news local.<\/p>\n<p>Dan&#8217;l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am away in Richmond, VA for a few days. Right after the big storm. A few trees down here and there but nothing major broken that I can see. Except for the TV coverage, life seems very normal. No conversation from residents about the storm. Ernesto? What was\u00a0that. HA! This is true where I stand, so don&#8217;t think what you are shown on TV is the whole story. It is only\u00a0a view of conditions&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}