{"id":219,"date":"2005-09-24T16:33:42","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T20:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/09\/24\/talking-up\/"},"modified":"2005-09-24T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T20:33:42","slug":"talking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/09\/24\/talking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1089'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s better than talking down to people.&nbsp; Short uninformative<br \/>\nannouncements that avoid the real issues may work as patches to<br \/>\nproblems, but they avoid the heart of matters<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Houston Mayor Bill White and County Judge Robert Eckels <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/rita\/archives\/2005\/09\/houstonians_don.html\">advise <\/a>Houston<br \/>\nand Harris County residents that it is safest not to return home yet.<br \/>\nFor those who remained in the city, it is safest to remain indoors.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nSafest&#8230; hmmm.&nbsp; Everyone should go visit <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">John Conwell<\/span> on Valerie Street in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bellaire <\/span>to see a little well-conceived safety. <font size=\"1\">(via Dan Feldstein)<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\nSchools to open again next Wednesday &#8211; what a long vacation! &#8211; and airports to start reopening by Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s better than talking down to people.&nbsp; Short uninformative announcements that avoid the real issues may work as patches to problems, but they avoid the heart of matters Houston Mayor Bill White and County Judge Robert Eckels advise Houston and Harris County residents that it is safest not to return home yet. For those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-mod"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}