{"id":3479,"date":"2017-09-12T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T11:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2018-07-10T14:35:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:35:56","slug":"hurricane-weekend-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=3479","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Weekend 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the waiting that drives you crazy.<\/p>\n<p>So, here we sit.   Saturday morning Sept 9, 2017.  A category 5 hurricane, Irma, raking Cuba.  The poor folks there, hunkered down. Kind of a futile effort.  We can pray for those who have no recourse.  That&#8217;s their best bet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the waiting that drives you crazy.<\/p>\n<p>There have been humanitarian gestures, hotels lowering their rates.  Of course, gas prices not included.  Those hiked way up just as the last hurricane moved in and destroyed Houston.  It&#8217;s up to $2.69 a gallon now. The major North-South routes look like giant parking lots. At least on the side headed North.  No one is coming to Florida.  Just leaving in a panic, outrunning the storm.   At a snail&#8217;s pace. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the waiting that drives you crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the waiting that drives you crazy. So, here we sit. Saturday morning Sept 9, 2017. A category 5 hurricane, Irma, raking Cuba. The poor folks there, hunkered down. Kind of a futile effort. We can pray for those who have no recourse. That&#8217;s their best bet. It&#8217;s the waiting that drives you crazy. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=3479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hurricane Weekend 2017<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Hurricane Weekend 2017","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida-weather","tag-florida-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7igqH-U7","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}