{"id":617,"date":"2005-08-28T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=617"},"modified":"2005-12-09T21:51:49","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T02:51:49","slug":"katrina-and-the-obvious-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/katrina-and-the-obvious-joke","title":{"rendered":"Katrina and the Obvious Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official VM fiancee and I have been watching the weather reports all day long, since her family lives in the New Orleans area (they evacuated on Satuday) and we&#8217;ll be having our wedding down there next spring.<\/p>\n<p>Our two lighthearted moments occurred when <\/p>\n<p>a) she said, &#8220;We&#8217;re not paying the second installment of our deposit to the wedding hall till we know if it&#8217;s still standing,&#8221; and<\/p>\n<p>b) when the news reports said that 20,000 to 30,000 people will be holed up in the Superdome, I said, &#8220;But how will they know if it can hold that many people?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope the cholera outbreaks die down by the time we go visit her family in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official VM fiancee and I have been watching the weather reports all day long, since her family lives in the New Orleans area (they evacuated on Satuday) and we&#8217;ll be having our wedding down there next spring. Our two lighthearted moments occurred when a) she said, &#8220;We&#8217;re not paying the second installment of our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/katrina-and-the-obvious-joke\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Katrina and the Obvious Joke&#8221;<\/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-617","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-9X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":872,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wedding-pictures","url_meta":{"origin":617,"position":0},"title":"Wedding pictures!","author":"Gil","date":"March 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The photographer's online proofing page of our wedding pix is available! 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