{"id":2489,"date":"2015-08-29T08:08:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T12:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2015-08-29T08:08:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T12:08:04","slug":"saturday-29-august-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/08\/29\/saturday-29-august-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 29 August 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:08 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> When I opened the morning paper, I was surprised to see a full-page color spread devoted to emergency preparedness. I&#8217;d forgotten that September is officially National Emergency Preparedness Month. Of course it was the usual inadequate 3-day list that FEMA pushes, with no mention of being prepared to defend yourself, but it&#8217;s better than nothing. The sad thing is that probably 90% of the American public aren&#8217;t prepared even at this level.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Of course, that percentage varies with circumstances and region. Right now, for example, a much higher percentage of the population of South Florida is preparing to hunker down to await the arrival of a hurricane. Before long, though, it&#8217;ll be back to business as usual for them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">More science kit stuff for us this weekend.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:08 &#8211; When I opened the morning paper, I was surprised to see a full-page color spread devoted to emergency preparedness. I&#8217;d forgotten that September is officially National Emergency Preparedness Month. Of course it was the usual inadequate 3-day list that FEMA pushes, with no mention of being prepared to defend yourself, but it&#8217;s better than nothing. The sad thing is that probably 90% of the American public aren&#8217;t prepared even at this level.\n<\/p>\n<p>Of course,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/08\/29\/saturday-29-august-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Saturday, 29 August 2015 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2","category-personal","category-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}