{"id":57,"date":"2005-09-07T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T22:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2005-09-07T15:31:18","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T22:31:18","slug":"not-to-underplay-the-human-tragedy-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Not to underplay the human tragedy, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/Whitealligator.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot the past few days about the animals left behind in New Orleans. The woman looking for her cat D.C. on NPR this morning just about broke my heart. The picture of the big, Mastiff-looking dog stuck in a tree upset me so much I had to change the channel for fear that I&#8217;d picture him over and over again as I was trying to go to sleep. <\/p>\n<p>So I was sad to hear that the aquarium in New Orleans didn&#8217;t fare so well. I don&#8217;t value fish as much as I do dogs and cats, but it&#8217;s still sad. And I was glad to hear the white alligator is OK. That said, as much of an animal lover as I am, I can think of no greater nightmare than riding out a hurricane in the reptile house. I think the only person more likely than me to stay up all night with that thought is my friend Miss Glamm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/science\/09\/07\/katrina.zoos\/index.html\">Katrina kills most fish in New Orleans aquarium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspca.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=hurricane_diary\">ASPCA <\/a>is doing good work, as usual, to help with this particular problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot the past few days about the animals left behind in New Orleans. The woman looking for her cat D.C. on NPR this morning just about broke my heart. The picture of the big, Mastiff-looking dog stuck in a tree upset me so much I had to change the channel for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}