{"id":15083,"date":"2009-09-21T01:14:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T01:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ken_burger_reliving_the_reality_of_hugo\/"},"modified":"2009-09-21T01:14:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T01:14:04","slug":"ken_burger_reliving_the_reality_of_hugo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15083","title":{"rendered":"Ken Burger: Reliving the reality of Hugo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember standing at Meeting and Broad streets, the famous Four Corners of Law, thinking this was a historic moment. As a reporter, I felt lucky to be there. As a citizen, however, it was devastating.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours later, I waded onto the barrier islands and witnessed firsthand what looked like a war zone. The power of such a storm made houses on the island look like they had been inside a blender.<\/p>\n<p>In the days to come, the sound of chain saws would dominate our senses as we all witnessed the aftermath of a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>I remember walking through the rubble of people&#8217;s homes and wondering how long it would take for us to recover from such a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, some of us never will.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2009\/sep\/20\/reliving-the-reality-of-hugo\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember standing at Meeting and Broad streets, the famous Four Corners of Law, thinking this was a historic moment. As a reporter, I felt lucky to be there. As a citizen, however, it was devastating. A few hours later,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15083\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,54,133,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-general-interest","category-south-carolina","category-history","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}