{"id":885,"date":"2004-09-06T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=885"},"modified":"2004-09-06T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-06T20:13:00","slug":"are-we-being-told-something-and-not-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"Are We Being Told Something and Not Listening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jameswolcott.com\/archives\/2004\/09\/an_ignoble_conf.php\" target=_blank>This article<\/a>&nbsp;by James Wolcott (found in FOAF&#8217;s blog) has an interesting observation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hurricane Frances also has a heraldic quality. Camille Paglia observed on Salon in February, 2003 that the explosion of the Columbia shuttle on the eve of the war on Iraq was a &#8220;stunning omen,&#8221; one that would make a Roman general think twice. A catastrophe strewing death, fire, and human remains across Bush&#8217;s home state of Texas was inauspicious to our undertaking; and so it has proven to be. Frances is the second hurricane to afflict Florida, home of brother Jeb, in rapid succession.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From what I&#8217;m hearing on the weather reports, a third hurricane is bearing down on Florida. Now, I&#8217;m really concerned for the people of Florida. Will they be able to survive until the election? Not very auspicious, is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article&nbsp;by James Wolcott (found in FOAF&#8217;s blog) has an interesting observation: Hurricane Frances also has a heraldic quality. Camille Paglia observed on Salon in February, 2003 that the explosion of the Columbia shuttle on the eve of the war on Iraq was a &#8220;stunning omen,&#8221; one that would make a Roman general think twice. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=885\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,16,1],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-politics","category-lj-xfer","tag-decision-2004"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}