{"id":1104,"date":"2005-09-01T21:53:27","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T01:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/01\/thats-what-im-talking-about\/"},"modified":"2005-09-01T21:53:27","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T01:53:27","slug":"thats-what-im-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/01\/thats-what-im-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s What I&#8217;m Talking About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after I <A href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/001705.html\">mentioned<\/A> &#8220;an idealized dream scenario wherein an alternative media outlet &#8230;could find somebody with specific expertise to dig into [the Katrina] story on short notice,&#8221; <I>Slate<\/I> posted an article on <A href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2125346\/nav\/tap2\/\">New Orleans&#8217; environmental history<\/A>, observing that &#8220;the sodden city has long placed itself in harm&#8217;s way, relying on uncertain artifice to protect it from unpredictable environs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ari Kelman&#8217;s claim that &#8220;New Orleans&#8217; dysfunctional relationship with its environment may make it the nation&#8217;s most improbable metropolis,&#8221; which was also the subject of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0520234332\">his book<\/A>, might get some argument from Los Angeles&#8217; most persistent critic, <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Davis\">Mike Davis<\/A>. But the article is a smart and fresh introduction to the historical context&#8211;exactly the sort of thing I was looking for yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Davis seems awfully busy these days himself, contemplating <A href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/index.mhtml?pid=5807\">Dubai<\/A> and the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1595580115\">avian flu<\/A>. But don&#8217;t be surprised if he turns up at some lefty policy journal by the end of the year talking about the institutional failures that made this disaster a lot worse than it could have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after I mentioned &#8220;an idealized dream scenario wherein an alternative media outlet &#8230;could find somebody with specific expertise to dig into [the Katrina] story on short notice,&#8221; Slate posted an article on New Orleans&#8217; environmental history, observing that &#8220;the sodden city has long placed itself in harm&#8217;s way, relying on uncertain artifice to protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}