{"id":169,"date":"2007-11-06T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T16:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/11\/06\/back-from-the-gulf-coast\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T16:35:09","slug":"back-from-the-gulf-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/11\/06\/back-from-the-gulf-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"back from the gulf coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/dsc_0143.jpg' title='dsc_0143.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/dsc_0143.jpg' alt='dsc_0143.jpg' width=\"300px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My trip to the Gulf Coast with volunteers from <a href=\"http:\/\/handsonportland.org\/\">Hands On Portland<\/a> ended on Sunday. I wrote continuously while I was there, cataloging every experience so that my leaky memory wouldn&#8217;t fail me when I wanted to reflect. <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/dsc_0120.jpg' title='Lawrence\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s House'><img src='http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/dsc_0120.jpg' alt='Lawrence\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s House' width=\"300px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a wonderful time and made some lifelong friends. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueoregon.com\/karol_collymore\/\">Karol<\/a> wrote eloquently nearly every day. While there, I worked on mold removal in a house the owner had built himself, spent a day talking and telling dirty jokes with people living with HIV at the Lazarus Project, and spent a day cleaning out cages in a no-kill animal shelter. I also toured the Upper and Lower Ninth Wards, St. Bernand Parish and drove out to a Katrina-specific landfill located in the middle of a national preserve for wetlands.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on sorting out pictures and some of the words, but I&#8217;m not quite ready to write about what things were like in Biloxi and New Orleans. Maybe I just need a few days.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/dsc_0026.jpg' title='Maggie'><img src='http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/dsc_0026.jpg' alt='Maggie' width=\"300px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s so much to do there, still, two years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My trip to the Gulf Coast with volunteers from Hands On Portland ended on Sunday. I wrote continuously while I was there, cataloging every experience so that my leaky memory wouldn&#8217;t fail me when I wanted to reflect. I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/11\/06\/back-from-the-gulf-coast\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handsonportland","category-nola","category-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}