{"id":262,"date":"2003-09-03T23:14:54","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T02:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=262"},"modified":"2003-09-03T23:14:54","modified_gmt":"2003-09-04T02:14:54","slug":"past-tense-fabian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Past tense Fabian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>O<\/span>ver at Reuters an article about the tropical storm Fabian. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&#038;storyID=3383469\">It&#8217;s slowly (or fast) making progress towards Bermuda<\/a>, possibly threatening the island.\n<\/p>\n<p>However, the whole article is written in the past tense and for that reason it&#8217;s weird to read. For example:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Fabian carried 120 mph winds and was likely to strengthen in the next two days, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;The government of Bermuda <em>was<\/em> likely to issue a hurricane watch on Thursday, alerting the colony&#8217;s 62,000 residents to possible storm conditions within 36 hours, the hurricane center said.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Trust me: at this moment, the storm has not <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;edition=us&#038;q=Fabian&#038;btnG=Search+News\">even arrived at Bermuda<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Reuters an article about the tropical storm Fabian. It&#8217;s slowly (or fast) making progress towards Bermuda, possibly threatening the island. However, the whole article is written in the past tense and for that reason it&#8217;s weird to read. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=262\">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\/262"}],"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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}