{"id":30963,"date":"2012-10-30T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/sandy-perspective.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T22:49:28","slug":"sandy-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/sandy-perspective.html","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to take away from the death and destruction that Sandy wrought on the NE United States, but some other places could use some disaster assistance (or at least sympathy), too. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/a.abcnews.go.com\/images\/ABC_Univision\/ap_cuba_storm_121029_main.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ABC_Univision\/News\/hurricane-sandy-leaves-destruction-wake\/story?id=17588956#.UJBiksXR6Vo'>What Sandy Did to Countries It&#8217;s Already Hit<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAs Sandy heads towards the East Coast, it has already taken dozens of lives.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/5hmey97nsWE' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to take away from the death and destruction that Sandy wrought on the NE United States, but some other places could use some disaster assistance (or at least sympathy), too. \u00a0 Embedded Link What Sandy Did to Countries It&#8217;s Already Hit As Sandy heads towards the East Coast, it has already taken dozens of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/sandy-perspective.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sandy Perspective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32015,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/house-gop-ekes-out-fiscal-cliff-deal-leave-hurricane-sandy-for-next-congress.html","url_meta":{"origin":30963,"position":0},"title":"House GOP ekes out fiscal cliff deal, leave Hurricane Sandy for next Congress","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Jan-13 10:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"House GOP ekes out fiscal cliff deal, leave Hurricane Sandy for next CongressExhausted by fiscal cliff deal, they didn't even vote on their \"We don't believe they need all that money, we'll just given them less than half of it\" alternative bill. 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