{"id":893,"date":"2007-05-07T11:14:57","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/tornado-in-kansas\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T16:14:57","slug":"tornado-in-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/tornado-in-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado in Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most folks living in the Ottawa area for their entire lives (like me) the idea of a really big tornado is certainly scary, but comfortably vague.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw Twister, neat movie.\u00c2\u00a0 But there&#8217;s no way a movie could prepare you for something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WEATHER\/05\/07\/severe.weather\/index.html\">this<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The town of Greensburg Kansas is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansas.com\/static\/slides\/050507tornadoaerials\/\">gone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just incredible.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe the most amazing part is that so far only 9 people are reported dead out of a town of 1500.\u00c2\u00a0 The tornado that hit it was a mile-wide and awfully angry.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing, and sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most folks living in the Ottawa area for their entire lives (like me) the idea of a really big tornado is certainly scary, but comfortably vague.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw Twister, neat movie.\u00c2\u00a0 But there&#8217;s no way a movie could prepare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/tornado-in-kansas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-ep","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}