{"id":237,"date":"2003-08-26T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2003-08-26T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=237"},"modified":"2003-08-26T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2003-08-26T18:53:08","slug":"dike-burst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Dike burst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span>lfons notes that there was a serious dike burst in the centre part of the Netherlands (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnw.nl\/news\/news.html#3714136\">link to RNW<\/a>).  2,000 people were evacutated and luckily nobody was injured. However, Alfons notes something weird in a national newspaper:<\/p>\n<p class=quote>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;and one of the responses of the inhabitants struck me as a sign of the time. She complained something like: <em>It wasn&#8217;t even mentioned on TV, so I thought it wasn&#8217;t that serious.<\/em>&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, I normally think that news shown on CNN is hardly worth watching or even being mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfons notes that there was a serious dike burst in the centre part of the Netherlands (link to RNW). 2,000 people were evacutated and luckily nobody was injured. However, Alfons notes something weird in a national newspaper: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;and one of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=237\">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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"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=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}