{"id":31961,"date":"2018-08-29T04:09:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T04:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31961"},"modified":"2018-08-29T04:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T04:09:10","slug":"maria-a-real-tragedy-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31961","title":{"rendered":"Maria: a &#8216;real tragedy&#8217; after all?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Well now, it turns out that the hurricane named Maria that devastated Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands was more than a footnote in the history of natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p>You might recall how Donald Trump thought to compare the then-measly death toll of 16 to a &#8220;real tragedy&#8221; that struck New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina stormed ashore.<\/p>\n<p>The territorial government today has declared that 2,975 Puerto Ricans &#8212; all American citizens &#8212; died when Hurricane Maria all but destroyed the island territory.<\/p>\n<p>Reasonable folks know that it was a tragedy anyway, even when the official death toll stood at 64.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the president might offer a <em>mea culpa<\/em> now that we know the real number of fatalities? Um. I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well now, it turns out that the hurricane named Maria that devastated Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands was more than a footnote in the history of natural disasters. You might recall how Donald Trump thought to compare the then-measly death toll of 16 to a &#8220;real tragedy&#8221; that struck New Orleans in 2005 when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maria: a &#8216;real tragedy&#8217; after all?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1424,7977,7330],"class_list":["post-31961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hurrican-katrina","tag-hurricane-maria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32002,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31961\/revisions\/32002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}