{"id":19459,"date":"2014-04-20T15:29:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T20:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19459"},"modified":"2014-04-20T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T20:29:31","slug":"earth-day-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19459","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have friends in town from Florida so we went to Earth Day Fest at Louis Armstrong Park yesterday. A friend of mine&#8217;s nonprofit sponsors the festival and kudos to her for pulling it off. New Orleans is not a bastion of environmental sensitivity &#8211; albeit it has become one post 2005 Federal Flood. So many silver linings from that event &#8211; they are too numerous to count. <\/p>\n<p>We had ourselves a good time listening to music and sitting on a grassy knoll and even got treated to an Aikido demonstration (albeit I almost wound up on the stage because the sun was frying me). <\/p>\n<p>And I got to wear my &#8220;Easter&#8221; hat &#8211; which was actually my wedding hat when I married my first husband in 1984 &#8211; thirty years ago &#8211; is that possible? The hat has come through these years pretty much intact &#8211; can&#8217;t say the same for myself!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6583.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19460\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=19460\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6583.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1397920131&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00056085249579361&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_6583\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6583.jpg?fit=640%2C480\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6583.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"IMG_6583\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6583.jpg?w=3264 3264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6583.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6583.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6583.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_6583.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have friends in town from Florida so we went to Earth Day Fest at Louis Armstrong Park yesterday. A friend of mine&#8217;s nonprofit sponsors the festival and kudos to her for pulling it off. New Orleans is not a bastion of environmental sensitivity &#8211; albeit it has become one post 2005 Federal Flood. So many silver linings from that event &#8211; they are too numerous to count. We had ourselves a good time listening&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-53R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19461,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459\/revisions\/19461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}