{"id":612,"date":"2005-08-31T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=612"},"modified":"2005-12-09T21:44:58","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T02:44:58","slug":"louisiana-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/louisiana-update","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official VM fiancee<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

Thank you for all of your emails and calls this week! The west bank of St. Charles Parish escaped serious damage, so my parents are driving back today to hook up the generator and begin the process of cleaning up. Their neighbor rode out the storm and reported NO flooding or damage to houses in the immediate area. We’re relieved to hear that bit of good news, but sickened by the destruction just 15-20 miles
northeast. News coverage indicates it’ll be at least a month before Orleans and Jefferson parish residents are allowed back and who knows how long before businesses reopen and life takes on some semblance of normalcy. I wish I had some news for you about our wedding plans, but those are, understandably, up in the air for now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m still hoping that we’ll be able to get hitched without a hitch down in NO,LA next March, but the short term looks pretty terrible down there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The official VM fiancee writes: Thank you for all of your emails and calls this week! The west bank of St. Charles Parish escaped serious damage, so my parents are driving back today to hook up the generator and begin the process of cleaning up. Their neighbor rode out the storm and reported NO flooding … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Louisiana Update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-9S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1346,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/is-39-the-new-265","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":0},"title":"Is 39 the new 26.5?","author":"Gil","date":"February 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy 39th birthday to the official VM brother! One year till the new 20, Bobo! Remember: Robert Parish won an NBA championship at 43! It's not too late!","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/is-39-the-new-265#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"selayoga.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/82\/275708484_871296f7e4.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":867,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/today-we-drink-tomorrow-we-marry","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":1},"title":"Today we drink, tomorrow we marry!","author":"Gil","date":"March 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"We got our marriage license Friday morning. The woman at the clerk's office of the parish courthouse knew Amy from childhood, so her part of the process was pretty smooth. However, when it came to asking me, \"Which state was your father born in?\", we discovered that they weren't prepared\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "New Orleans"","block_context":{"text":"New Orleans","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/travel\/new-orleans"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":95,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/remember-remember","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":2},"title":"Remember, Remember","author":"Gil","date":"November 5, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Guy Fawkes Day today. Children throughout the empire burn effigies of the Gunpowder Traitor.She left me last night. \"Sent me away,\" to borrow her parlance.Any of you who know me personally have some idea of how head-over-heels I've been for the past two months. At her request, I refrained from\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":61,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hail-to-the-chief","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":3},"title":"Hail to the Chief","author":"Gil","date":"September 6, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a busy week: a Labor Day drive down to Princeton to meet up with one of my best friends for lunch, a trip to Boston for a healthcare investor conference on Tuesday (where I stayed with another good friend in Worcester), a couple of late evenings in NYC\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":614,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/flood-aid","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":4},"title":"Flood Aid","author":"Gil","date":"August 30, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"No news yet from my fiancee's family, most of whom live in a town about 35 miles southwest of New Orleans. They evacuated out of state on Saturday, and a bunch are supposed to be on their way home now to survey the damage. I'll post more when I know\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":508,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/french-tickler","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":5},"title":"French Tickler","author":"Gil","date":"March 11, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a not-so-nice biography out about Bernard-Henri Levy, the Frenchman who wrote a book about the murder of Danny Pearl. Here's a quote from the biography's review:Character assassination in France is less of a sport than in Britain, because the French care less about character, and in the culture that\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}