{"id":4135,"date":"2011-03-13T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2011-03-13T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T19:52:07","slug":"sendai-in-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4135","title":{"rendered":"Sendai in Ruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/infocus\/2011\/03\/earthquake-in-japan\/100022\/\">Stunning pictures<\/a> of Japan&#8217;s earthquake.  And you can check out the NYT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2011\/03\/13\/world\/asia\/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html\">before and after<\/a> slider.  Sendai was a city of a million people. Now it looks like Lemay came back and fire-bombed it.  Japanese officials are saying at least 10,000 are dead.  I&#8217;ll be stunned if it&#8217;s under 50,000 when all is said and done, each of those deaths a horrific tragedy like the story I read this morning about a woman who lost her grip on her daughter&#8217;s hand.  It&#8217;s only because of Japan&#8217;s relentless preparedness and response to the Kobe quake that&#8217;s it not worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stunning pictures of Japan&#8217;s earthquake. And you can check out the NYT&#8217;s before and after slider. Sendai was a city of a million people. Now it looks like Lemay came back and fire-bombed it. Japanese officials are saying at least 10,000 are dead. I&#8217;ll be stunned if it&#8217;s under 50,000 when all is said and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sendai in Ruins<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-14H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4146,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}