{"id":817,"date":"2012-11-18T22:38:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=817"},"modified":"2012-11-18T22:44:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T22:44:38","slug":"hurricane-katrina-transplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Katrina Transplants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a0Rest Day and my husband&#8217;s birthday! \u00a0Happy Birthday Sweetie!!!<\/p>\n<p>We live in the South (Mississippi). \u00a0We are approximately a 2 1\/2 hours drive, heading North, from the Gulf of Mexico. \u00a0When hurricanes arrive in the Gulf, they are usually spent by the time they reach us. \u00a0By that I mean, the gale force wind are just 40 mph or so mile and the rain we receive is only 2-4 inches. Not the HUGE storms they have down on the coast.<\/p>\n<p>When Hurricane Katrina blew through, a lot of people pulled up stakes and relocated themselves North, meaning to places like mid-central Mississippi. \u00a0I guess that is considered North if you lived on the coast but to the majority of Americans, it is still &#8220;The South&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One of our more notable &#8220;transplants&#8221; from hurricane Katina has landed herself a spot as a columnist in our local Sunday newspaper. \u00a0She is a joy (note use of sarcasm button). \u00a0This lovely lady has the gift of grumpyness.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite thing to do on Sunday mornings is to grab the paper and read the topic sentence (and on a few rare occasions) or the entire first paragraph of her weekly column, just to find what she has decided to complain about that week! \u00a0It&#8217;s really quite funny!!! \u00a0So, imagine my surprise\/delight today when I found out I did not need to read ANY of her column this week! \u00a0The title of her article today was: (are you ready for this?),\u00a0&#8220;Thanks, Anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Enough said!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a0Rest Day and my husband&#8217;s birthday! \u00a0Happy Birthday Sweetie!!! We live in the South (Mississippi). \u00a0We are approximately a 2 1\/2 hours drive, heading North, from the Gulf of Mexico. \u00a0When hurricanes arrive in the Gulf, they are usually spent by the time they reach us. \u00a0By that I mean, the gale force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}