{"id":160,"date":"2006-10-06T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/10\/06\/katrina-and-the-arts\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:24:14","slug":"katrina-and-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/katrina-and-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrina and the arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>some recent overlaps around Hurricane Katrina and the arts: the most-recent issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombsite.com\/\">BOMB magazine<\/a> has an excellent short story by Sheila Bosworth. Broken down into over a dozen little shorts, the stories mix facts and figures, times and places with first-hand accounts and quotes ranging from a paraphrased Ernest Hemingway (&#8220;Katrina? Just another whore.&#8221;) to interactions with a real person with the pseudonym <em>Commander<\/em> (&#8220;People kept saying, Buses is coming for us, everybody line up for the buses.&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The article includes a photograph by Robert Polidori whose current exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/special\/new_orleans\/polidori_more.asp\"><strong><em>After the Flood<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is currently on view at the MET.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image161\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/robert-polidori_met.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"robert-polidori_met.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Related websites:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Katrina\">Wikipedia entry lists over 100 external news-articles, et al.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>some recent overlaps around Hurricane Katrina and the arts: the most-recent issue of BOMB magazine has an excellent short story by Sheila Bosworth. Broken down into over a dozen little shorts, the stories mix facts and figures, times and places with first-hand accounts and quotes ranging from a paraphrased Ernest Hemingway (&#8220;Katrina? Just another whore.&#8221;) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,11],"tags":[491,1234,490],"series":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-news","tag-hurricane-katrina","tag-photography","tag-robert-polidori"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/robert-polidori_met.jpg?fit=500%2C352&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-2A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}