{"id":618,"date":"2011-03-11T22:14:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T04:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2012-03-13T21:49:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T02:49:56","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-161","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the Week<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> Japan Earthquake\/Tsunami \u00e2\u20ac\u201c What a horror show. The images and videos are unreal. Such devastation. And yet a surprisingly low fatality count (so far). That shows how well the Japanese were prepared and how well they build their buildings. This was the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Japan, which is saying a lot. And yet their cities are still standing. Amazing. They have a huge cleanup ahead of them and there is still a concern about the nuclear power plants, but it appears their preparation and building codes saved countless lives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> Illinois Politics \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The governor abolishes the death penalty, which is a good thing, and then signs the Amazon tax bill, which is sheer stupidity and arrogance considering the overwhelming evidence that this bill will hurt the state, not help it. So we&#8217;re 50\/50 on the day. One step forward, one step back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> Habs Hockey Fans \u00e2\u20ac\u201c So the Montreal Canadians fans called 911 to report an assault because one of their players got checked in an NHL hockey game? What&#8217;s next, reports of speeding at the Grand Prix of Canada? Give me a break.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the Week Japan Earthquake\/Tsunami \u00e2\u20ac\u201c What a horror show. The images and videos are unreal. Such devastation. And yet a surprisingly low fatality count (so far). That shows how well the Japanese were prepared and how well they build their buildings. This was the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Japan, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-sports","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}