{"id":1946,"date":"2012-10-31T10:08:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T14:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2012-10-31T10:08:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T14:08:15","slug":"on-post-storm-looting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/on-post-storm-looting\/","title":{"rendered":"ON POST-STORM LOOTING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had all hoped there would be no \u201cKatrina hits New Orleans\u201d looting in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.\u00a0 Those hopes may have been optimistic, as seen here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/31\/hurricane-sandy-looting-brooklyn-coney-island_n_2047183.html?1351655228&amp;icid=m\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/31\/hurricane-sandy-looting-brooklyn-coney-island_n_2047183.html?1351655228&amp;icid=m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least one reader of my last blog entry thought I was overreacting to the Twitter warnings of looting.\u00a0 I dunno about that.\u00a0 \u201cThose who ignore history,\u201d Santayana said, \u201care doomed to repeat it.<\/p>\n<p>When I was born, the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 was fresher in their memories than the attack of September 11, 2001 is in our memories now.\u00a0 My generation was taught by their generation NOT to ignore blips on the radar screen.\u00a0 That seems to still be pretty good advice.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m told that Halloween has been postponed to November 3 in New Jersey due to Sandy\u2019s devastation there.\u00a0 For all who are celebrating Halloween tonight, have a great time with the kids!<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are still with those who\u2019ve suffered from the storm, and still are feeling its effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had all hoped there would be no \u201cKatrina hits New Orleans\u201d looting in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.\u00a0 Those hopes may have been optimistic, as seen here: http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/31\/hurricane-sandy-looting-brooklyn-coney-island_n_2047183.html?1351655228&amp;icid=m At least one reader of my last blog entry thought I was overreacting to the Twitter warnings of looting.\u00a0 I dunno about that.\u00a0 \u201cThose who ignore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-preparedness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}