{"id":802,"date":"2005-09-14T12:09:11","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/09\/14\/real-heroes-of-new-orleans\/"},"modified":"2005-09-14T12:14:17","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T17:14:17","slug":"real-heroes-of-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/09\/real-heroes-of-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Heroes of New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistworker.org\/2005-2\/556\/556_04_RealHeroes.shtml\">A must read<\/a>, this article contrasts the behavior of the working-class people of New Orleans with that of the various officials they had to deal with. A very interesting dispatch.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Quite naturally, we asked, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go to the only two shelters in the city, what was our alternative?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The guards told us that this was our problem&#8211;and no, they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have extra water to give to us. This would be the start of our numerous encounters with callous and hostile \u00e2\u20ac\u0153law enforcement.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/09\/12\/1426242&#038;mode=thread&#038;tid=25\">Blackwater Mercenaries<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A must read, this article contrasts the behavior of the working-class people of New Orleans with that of the various officials they had to deal with. A very interesting dispatch. Quite naturally, we asked, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go to the only two shelters in the city, what was our alternative?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The guards told us that this was our problem&#8211;and no, they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have extra water to give to us. This would be the start of our numerous encounters with callous&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/09\/real-heroes-of-new-orleans\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-human-rights","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}