{"id":12906,"date":"2011-07-01T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12906"},"modified":"2011-07-01T09:05:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:05:31","slug":"slow-news-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12906","title":{"rendered":"Slow news days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is when the blogging slows down along with the rest of what goes on around here. Big news in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/traffic\/index.ssf\/2011\/06\/causeway_refuses_to_relinquish.html\" target=\"_blank\">Times Picayune<\/a> is that China has built a bridge they claim is the longest bridge over water, the title that our Causeway Bridge has claimed since it was built. Meanwhile, yesterday a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/pets\/index.ssf\/2011\/06\/injured_6-foot_alligator_turns.html\" target=\"_blank\">gator<\/a> was rescued from our bridge and it is a mystery as to how he got there.<\/p>\n<p>Essence Festival rolled into town bringing with it all of the black pulchritude that exists in the U.S. of A. as well as the talent &#8211; Mary Blige, Usher, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The rain is back &#8211; our typical pattern of heat rising till it is choking you and the sky breaking free with buckets of water to cool us down making our trees greener, our yards overly lush, not to mention setting off all of the tropical splendor and smells New Orleans can muster.<\/p>\n<p>All hail the slow days of summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is when the blogging slows down along with the rest of what goes on around here. Big news in the Times Picayune is that China has built a bridge they claim is the longest bridge over water, the title that our Causeway Bridge has claimed since it was built. Meanwhile, yesterday a gator was rescued from our bridge and it is a mystery as to how he got there. Essence Festival rolled into town&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-12906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-3ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12908,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906\/revisions\/12908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}