{"id":1085,"date":"2008-11-16T07:49:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2008-11-16T07:49:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T15:49:15","slug":"fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning to a very orange sunrise as the smoke from the fires over the last few days dissipates.\u00a0 It is probably good news because the smoke dispersing means that the wind has died down.\u00a0 We were perfectly safe this time.\u00a0 The nearest fire was in Yorba Linda about 15 miles away as the crow flies.\u00a0 It is very sad to learn that people have lost all of their possessions.\u00a0 The good news is that there have been no reports of people losing their lives.\u00a0 We had a fire in Sierra Madre in the spring<\/strong><\/a> and I wrote about it extensively.<\/p>\n

One of the important things to do is to put it in perspective.\u00a0 There are about 3 million homes in the Los Angeles area and less than a thousand of them have burned.\u00a0 About 3\/100’s of a percent.\u00a0 It is tragic for the individuals but compared to 50% of the homes in New Orleans being damaged by Katrina it is minor. It also means that there are 2,999,000 that are not damaged by this fire.\u00a0 The video footage of fires burning down hillsides at night is compelling and TV news shows so much of it, on an endless loop, that we start to believe that the whole world is burning.\u00a0 It is not. Remember much of the media have, in the words of Marek Kohn<\/a> “devoted themselves to the art of making the middle class afraid.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning to a very orange sunrise as the smoke from the fires over the last few days dissipates.\u00a0 It is probably good news because the smoke dispersing means that the wind has died down.\u00a0 We were perfectly safe this time.\u00a0 The nearest fire was in Yorba Linda about 15 miles away […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s99jGb-fires","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}