{"id":1835,"date":"2005-10-10T08:41:47","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T08:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2005-10-10T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T08:41:47","slug":"wading_toward_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1835","title":{"rendered":"Wading Toward Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lewis (with his better half, Tabitha Soren riding shotgun taking pictures) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/09\/magazine\/09neworleans.html?ex=1286510400&amp;en=cf21ddfe5c30733c&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">visits post flood New Orleans<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Immediately he had a problem: a small generator that powered one tiny window air-conditioning unit. It cooled just one small room, his office. But the thing made such a racket that, as he put it, &#8220;they could have busted down the front door and be storming inside and I wouldn&#8217;t have heard them. There could have been 20 natives outside screaming, &#8216;I&#8217;m gonna burn your house down,&#8217; and I&#8217;d a never heard it.&#8221; Fearing he might nod off and be taken in his sleep, he jammed a rack filled with insurance-industry magazines against the door. (Haywood sells life insurance.) In his little office, he sat all night &#8211; as far as he knew, the last white person left in New Orleans. He tried to sleep, he said, but &#8220;I kept dreaming all night long someone was coming through the door.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t leave his air-conditioned office until first light, when he crept out and squinted through his mail slot. In that moment, he was what Uptown New Orleans had become, even before the storm: a white man, alone, peering out through a slot in search of what might kill him. All he needed was the answer.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lewis (with his better half, Tabitha Soren riding shotgun taking pictures) visits post flood New Orleans: Immediately he had a problem: a small generator that powered one tiny window air-conditioning unit. It cooled just one small room, his office. But the thing made such a racket that, as he put it, &#8220;they could have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}