{"id":1614,"date":"2007-10-02T17:34:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T20:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2007-10-02T17:34:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T20:34:18","slug":"weatherwise-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Weatherwise (and other news)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>e&#8217;re going through some sort of &#8216;heatspell&#8217; (if you can call it that way) with temperatures &#8216;clocking around&#8217; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatheroffice.gc.ca\/city\/pages\/ns-25_metric_e.html\">20 degrees<\/a>. Which is generally good, but then, the temperature has been going down fast at night: a couple of nights ago, the thermometer hit -1 degrees Celsius. Time for the trees to drop their leafs.\n<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a couple of items got my attention: First there was the Carol Anne Gotbaum case (<a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2007\/10\/02\/family_believes.php\">over at the Gothamist<\/a>): a 45 year old woman died while in police custody. The only reason why I mention this is because it reads like something surreal. Apparently you can kill yourself when you&#8217;re handcuffed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2175054\/nav\/fix\/\">Don&#8217;t try this at home<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>You may have heard about the Blackwater incident but the real story seems to be in the details: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/10\/02\/africa\/contract.php\">employees who by accident kill Iraqi guards and then get flown out with the State Department&#8217;s consent<\/a>. Or, what about that story on <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/Blackwater_USA_linked_to_Bush_administration_1002.html\">Blackwater employees linked to the Pentagon<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>On a lighter note, RawStory also has an AFP story about this year&#8217;s hurricane season: Forecasters predict that <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/afp\/Two_more_Atlantic_hurricanes_expect_10022007.html\">two Atlantic hurricanes<\/a> will form in the remainder of the hurrican season (which ends at and around November 30th). It has been a rough ride for Mexico this year, I hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re going through some sort of &#8216;heatspell&#8217; (if you can call it that way) with temperatures &#8216;clocking around&#8217; the 20 degrees. Which is generally good, but then, the temperature has been going down fast at night: a couple of nights &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1614\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,11],"tags":[49,50,51,48,47,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}