{"id":2258,"date":"2008-09-14T15:10:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T19:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2008-09-14T15:10:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T19:10:36","slug":"force-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"Force of nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We stayed at the sea side resort, Four Seasons on the Gulf in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=1683\">Galveston<\/a>. The little town was charming. I particularly enjoyed the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moody_Gardens\">Moody Gardens<\/a>, the old downtown and little <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ocean_Star_Offshore_Drilling_Rig_%26_Museum\">Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig &amp; Museum<\/a>.\u00a0 The beach was great too.<\/p>\n<p>The devastating damages made by Ike is unreal, or too real.\u00a0\u00a0Lately, the nature disasters are so routine that I almost lost count of them.\u00a0 What have we done to this planet, and to ourselves?<\/p>\n<p>The October issue of National Geographic talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neanderthal\">Neanderthals<\/a>, the other humans that had gone, extinct.\u00a0 Eurasia was theirs alone for 200,000 years. .. ..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/14\/opinion\/14friedman.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion&amp;oref=slogin\">Thomas Friedman<\/a>\u00a0ridicules Palin or McCain&#8217;s drill, baby, drill!\u00a0 He asserts that why would they make America stupid by doing thing so last century &#8211; fossil fuels instead the 21st-century technology: the renewable energy?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Giants is winning at St. Louis 20:6, little over 2 minutes left in the third\u00a0quarter &#8211; the stadium is only half filled!! How could that be?? Meet me in St. Louis \ud83d\ude42\u00a0.. ..\u00a0\u00a0 So what&#8217;s the heck &#8211;\u00a0 win, boy, win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stayed at the sea side resort, Four Seasons on the Gulf in Galveston. The little town was charming. I particularly enjoyed the Moody Gardens, the old downtown and little Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig &amp; Museum.\u00a0 The beach was great too. The devastating damages made by Ike is unreal, or too real.\u00a0\u00a0Lately, the nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}