{"id":2043,"date":"2007-11-29T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T15:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2007-11-29T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T15:52:52","slug":"very-disconcerting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2043","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing a bayou and adopting a lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk of building a permanent levee where the floodgates exist and turning Bayou St John into a lagoon. Sorry, we don&#8217;t want a lagoon. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\">Bienville came up Bayou St. John in 1699 to found the city of New Orleans. How will history judge us and the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East if we miss the opportunity to rescue, preserve and improve one of our most valuable and historic natural resources?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 13px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\">Robert Counce\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 13px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\">New Orleans\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk of building a permanent levee where the floodgates exist and turning Bayou St John into a lagoon. Sorry, we don&#8217;t want a lagoon. \u00a0\u00a0 Bienville came up Bayou St. John in 1699 to found the city of New Orleans. How will history judge us and the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East if we miss the opportunity to rescue, preserve and improve one of our most valuable and historic natural resources?\u00a0 Robert Counce\u00a0 New&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-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-wX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","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=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}