{"id":3195,"date":"2005-10-11T01:13:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T08:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/10\/11\/3195.html"},"modified":"2005-10-11T01:13:13","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T08:13:13","slug":"items-sad-news-from-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/10\/11\/items-sad-news-from-all-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: Sad news from all over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is probably all old news by now, but I wanted to at least note it all in passing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I haven't been able to bring myself to even read most of the news articles about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/11\/international\/americas\/11guatemala.html\">Hurricane Stan<\/a> (\"more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of people homeless\") or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2005\/10\/10\/international\/i105405D79.DTL\">Pakistan earthquake<\/a> (\"Death toll estimates ranged from 20,000 to 30,000\").  Oh, and in the midst of all the Katrina stuff a month ago, I (and many others) never did get around to mentioning the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/meast\/08\/31\/iraq.main\/\">1000 Iraqis killed in a panicked crowd<\/a> on a bridge at the end of August.<\/li>\n<li>Compared to the above, this seems minor; and I think someone may've linked to this in comments anyway.  But now I can't find it in comments, so I'll go ahead and post it: A couple weeks ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2005\/09\/29\/MNG4IEVVEG5.DTL\">Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill<\/a>, as he had said he would do.  Alas.<\/li>\n<li>And as Nick Park has noted, this seems <em>really<\/em> minor in light of the abovementioned natural disasters, but still worth mentioning sadly: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20051010\/en_nm\/leisure_wallace_dc\">Blaze destroys Wallace and Gromit's history<\/a>.\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably all old news by now, but I wanted to at least note it all in passing. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-samesex-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}