{"id":401,"date":"2005-09-07T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2005-09-07T19:00:46","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T19:00:46","slug":"got_to_blame_someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/got_to_blame_someone\/","title":{"rendered":"Got to blame someone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Borrowed from &#8220;MoveOn.org&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/katrina-timeline\/\">Timeline<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Friday, Aug. 26: Gov. Kathleen Blanco declares a state of emergency in Louisiana and requests troop assistance.<br \/>\nSaturday, Aug. 27: Gov. Blanco asks for federal state of emergency. A federal emergency is declared giving federal officials the authority to get involved.<br \/>\nSunday, Aug. 28: Mayor Ray Nagin orders mandatory evacuation of New Orleans. President Bush warned of Levee failure by National Hurricane Center. National Weather Service predicts area will be &#8220;uninhabitable&#8221; after Hurricane arrives. First reports of water toppling over the levee appear in local paper.<br \/>\nMonday, Aug. 29: Levee breaches and New Orleans begins to fill with water, Bush travels to Arizona and California to discuss Medicare. FEMA chief finally responds to federal emergency, dispatching employees but giving them two days to arrive on site.<br \/>\nTuesday, Aug. 30: Mass looting reported, security shortage cited in New Orleans. Pentagon says that local authorities have adequate National Guard units to handle hurricane needs despite governor&#8217;s earlier request. Bush returns to Crawford for final day of vacation. TV coverage is around-the-clock Hurricane news.<br \/>\nWednesday, Aug. 31: Tens of thousands trapped in New Orleans including at Convention Center and Superdome in &#8220;medieval&#8221; conditions. President Bush finally returns to Washington to establish a task force to coordinate federal response. Local authorities run out of food and water supplies.<br \/>\nThursday, Sept. 1: New Orleans descends into anarchy. New Orleans Mayor issues a &#8220;Desperate SOS&#8221; to federal government. Bush claims nobody predicted the breach of the levees despite multiple warnings and his earlier briefing.<br \/>\nFriday, Sept. 2: Karl Rove begins Bush administration campaign to blame state and local officials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borrowed from &#8220;MoveOn.org&#8221; Timeline Friday, Aug. 26: Gov. Kathleen Blanco declares a state of emergency in Louisiana and requests troop assistance. Saturday, Aug. 27: Gov. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}