{"id":353,"date":"2006-12-03T05:17:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T05:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elli.annall.is\/2006-12-03\/05.17.11"},"modified":"2006-12-03T05:17:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T05:17:11","slug":"051711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2006\/12\/03\/051711\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing on the levee (or not)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(N\u00fa \u00ed byrjun desember ver\u00f0 \u00e9g \u00e1 n\u00e1mskei\u00f0i \u00e1 vegum sk\u00f3lans sem ber heiti\u00f0<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/churchrespondstodisaster.blogspot.com\/\"><em>How Church Responds to Disaster<\/em><\/a><em>. N\u00e1mskei\u00f0i\u00f0 er haldi\u00f0 \u00ed Slidell \u00ed Louisiana. Hluti af skyldum okkar \u00e1 n\u00e1mskei\u00f0inu er a\u00f0 skrifa bloggf\u00e6rslur um upplifun okkar. \u00c9g mun birta f\u00e6rslurnar m\u00ednar h\u00e9r \u00e1 ann\u00e1l.is einnig. \u00dear sem \u00e9g skrifa f\u00e6rslurnar \u00e1 ensku \u00e1 opinbera s\u00ed\u00f0u n\u00e1mskei\u00f0sins, mun \u00e9g birta \u00fe\u00e6r einnig h\u00e9r \u00e1 ensku. Hugsanlega mun \u00e9g s\u00ed\u00f0ar \u00fe\u00fd\u00f0a og endurskrifa \u00fe\u00e6r \u00e1 \u00edslensku. En \u00fea\u00f0 er \u00fe\u00f3 alls \u00f3v\u00edst.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to see five college girls talking and laughing on the levee of Mississippi River, in the French Quarter, asking a man walking by to take their picture. They were probably students on a holiday, having fun in the lively downtown of New Orleans. A city center unlike any other I have seen in the States, live music on every corner, mimics and acrobats doing their acts.<br \/> <!--more--> <br \/>Only an hour earlier we were driving in Lower Ninth Ward, stopping at a relief center, meeting people coming for an extra blanket, because it had been cold in their FEMA-trailer the night before. Devastated houses and people looking for <em>solidarity not charity<\/em> was what we met in the Lower Ninth Ward, a poor neighborhood, which was almost forgotten and will probably not be rebuilt. No matter the feelings of the house owners that have little or no possibility to start from scratch elsewhere. It was also shocking to hear that the new levee protecting the neighborhood is to low to stop the flooding if a Hurricane of Katrina\u0092s size would hit again. According to the Government a better levee would just be too expensive. But the decision seems almost inhuman when we drive pass houses marked with the letters <em>D.O.A. 1-Body<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>U2 and Green Day sang in the Superdome a little more than a month a go: <em>After the Flood all the Colors came out.<\/em> Hopefully they are right; it was a colorful day for the five college girls on the levee of Mississippi River today. But we still have to hope and pray for more colorful days for the people in the Lower Ninth Ward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(N\u00fa \u00ed byrjun desember ver\u00f0 \u00e9g \u00e1 n\u00e1mskei\u00f0i \u00e1 vegum sk\u00f3lans sem ber heiti\u00f0 How Church Responds to Disaster. N\u00e1mskei\u00f0i\u00f0 er haldi\u00f0 \u00ed Slidell \u00ed Louisiana. Hluti af skyldum okkar \u00e1 n\u00e1mskei\u00f0inu er a\u00f0 skrifa bloggf\u00e6rslur um upplifun okkar. \u00c9g mun birta f\u00e6rslurnar m\u00ednar h\u00e9r \u00e1 ann\u00e1l.is einnig. \u00dear sem \u00e9g skrifa f\u00e6rslurnar \u00e1 ensku &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2006\/12\/03\/051711\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Laughing on the levee (or not)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,109],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-my-studies","tag-neworleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}