{"id":3125,"date":"2010-08-27T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-27T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T16:55:34","slug":"from-new-orleans-to-port-au-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/08\/27\/from-new-orleans-to-port-au-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"From New Orleans to Port-au-Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In two more days, many of us, especially those of us connected to New Orleans, will observe the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.&nbsp; Will we be forever changed by the anniversary?&nbsp; It&#8217;s hard to say.&nbsp; Were we changed by the hurricane and flooding of the cultural heart of the U.S.?&nbsp; You better believe it.<\/p>\n<p>In a little more than two weeks, this adopted son of New Orleans will head to Port-au-Prince.&nbsp; The idea is to work with Sun Mountain International, an NGO that does work in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still trying to arrange lodging as I hear Katrina anniversary news stories about the housing shortage in New Orleans.&nbsp; What will I see in the capital of Haiti?&nbsp; How much rubble and debris will line or even block the streets?&nbsp; Are people in Haiti too preoccupied with daily survival to mark dates?&nbsp; I know they are a nation attuned to history, their national history, their history of origin in rebellion and struggle for freedom.<\/p>\n<p>What does the future signify for them?&nbsp; Again is the quotidian struggle a mountain that rises between the people and the prospect of the future?&nbsp; Port-au-Prince and New Orleans are sister cities?&nbsp; How many residents of Port-au-Prince know that?&nbsp; Will I serve as a reminder for the few people with whom I come into contact?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1822199030431006452-3158901020167435480?l=threesuns-russrunner.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two more days, many of us, especially those of us connected to New Orleans, will observe the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.&nbsp; Will we be forever changed by the anniversary?&nbsp; It&#8217;s hard to say.&nbsp; Were we changed by the hurricane &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}