{"id":2022,"date":"2011-08-27T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2011-08-27T11:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T16:00:43","slug":"good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2022","title":{"rendered":"IF THERE CAN BE GOOD NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The present track of Irene puts the eye of hurricane going over Western Long Island, about 100 miles west of Rhode Island. Very good news for us, not so for those now in the path of the storm. If this holds true, I will be very relieved.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2023\" style=\"width: 1019px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2023\" href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?attachment_id=2023\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2023\" title=\"Screen Shot 2011-08-27 at 8.46.57 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-Shot-2011-08-27-at-8.46.57-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1019\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-Shot-2011-08-27-at-8.46.57-AM.png 1019w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-Shot-2011-08-27-at-8.46.57-AM-300x293.png 300w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-Shot-2011-08-27-at-8.46.57-AM-48x48.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1019px) 100vw, 1019px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">latest NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The storm has also been downgraded and has weakened. Right now the predictions for Newport, RI are 50 knot winds, quite acceptable. (as the reader may know the force of the wind is the square of the speed, a few quick examples will show how dramatically things change as the numbers grow.)<\/p>\n<p>I am feeling cautiously better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The present track of Irene puts the eye of hurricane going over Western Long Island, about 100 miles west of Rhode Island. Very good news for us, not so for those now in the path of the storm. If this holds true, I will be very relieved. The storm has also been downgraded and has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2022\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IF THERE CAN BE GOOD NEWS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[853],"tags":[2544,2418,711,859],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hurricane-irene","tag-hurricane-irene","tag-newport-ri","tag-noaa","tag-storm-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}