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Katrina: The Gathering.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katrina: The Gathering.<\/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-649","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-at","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":617,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/katrina-and-the-obvious-joke","url_meta":{"origin":649,"position":0},"title":"Katrina and the Obvious Joke","author":"Gil","date":"August 28, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"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'll be having our wedding down there next spring.Our two lighthearted moments occurred when a) she said, \"We're not paying the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":733,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-waiting","url_meta":{"origin":649,"position":1},"title":"The waiting","author":"Gil","date":"November 9, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Bad-ass thunderstorms up in NJ\/NY, so my flight back home is delayed. 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