{"id":202,"date":"2005-09-11T03:59:50","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T07:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/09\/11\/new-orleans-before-and-after-days-"},"modified":"2005-09-11T03:59:50","modified_gmt":"2005-09-11T07:59:50","slug":"new-orleans-before-and-after-days-0-through-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/09\/11\/new-orleans-before-and-after-days-0-through-5\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans, before and after :  Days 0 through 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1054'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fantastic<\/span>, nightmarish<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span>photoessay.&nbsp; 200 photos, before and after, all over town.&nbsp; Beautifully shot by one <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Alvaro<\/span>. As Ian notes, he could use a caption editor, but his love of the city comes through&#8230; it breaks my heart.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">when I wasn&#8217;t taking pictures, we donated a truckload of food to the<br \/>\npolice department, gave away over 10 gallons of water to civilians when<br \/>\nwe decided to leave, and we sat on the curb outside of our apartment<br \/>\nwith a radio on so that the whole block could listen to the news. I&#8217;m<br \/>\nnot trained as a lifesaver, but I do like taking pictures.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The city seems to have been fine well into Day 2; a quick evacuation should<br \/>\nhave been possible as late as day 3, once everyone realized there was real<br \/>\ntrouble underfoot, and was promised by day 5.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure when<br \/>\nthe last buses left, but it was more like day 8&#8230;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a fantastic, nightmarish photoessay.&nbsp; 200 photos, before and after, all over town.&nbsp; Beautifully shot by one Alvaro. As Ian notes, he could use a caption editor, but his love of the city comes through&#8230; it breaks my heart. when I wasn&#8217;t taking pictures, we donated a truckload of food to the police department, gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-too-weird-for-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}