I wish I could stop thinking about this whole hurricane crisis, but I can’t. And it’s my blog, so if it’s on my mind, it’s on the blog.<\/p>\n
Phantom Scribbler<\/a> has some really horrific stuff on the political mismanagement of this whole thing. I won’t pretend to know enough about American politics to be able to comment, but I’m finding her posts both illuminating and terrifying. I am still naive enough to hope half – just half – of the things she has noted are not true.<\/p>\n I work in government communications, and yet I swear I’d slit my wrists before setting up a photo opportunity for a politician and then dismantling it, leaving suffering people behind. As much as I think George Bush is an asshole, and a stupid asshole at that, I still don’t want to believe that this story <\/a>is true.<\/p>\n Edited September 7 to add: <\/em><\/strong>Phantom Scribbler has since added a note that the second link, about the food distribution rumour, is no more than a rumour. Funny, though, it hasn’t much changed how I feel about George Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wish I could stop thinking about this whole hurricane crisis, but I can’t. And it’s my blog, so if it’s on my mind, it’s on the blog. Phantom Scribbler has some really horrific stuff on the political mismanagement of this whole thing. I won’t pretend to know enough about American politics to be able … Continue reading “Because I can’t stop thinking about this”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}