{"id":403,"date":"2007-07-04T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/07\/04\/july-4th-shocker-an-emergency-plan-actually-works\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T22:18:07","slug":"july-4th-shocker-an-emergency-plan-actually-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/07\/04\/july-4th-shocker-an-emergency-plan-actually-works\/","title":{"rendered":"July 4th Shocker: An Emergency Plan Actually *Works*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there are big storms rolling in (which is why I&#8217;m here, instead of out grilling), and the National Park Police decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/04\/AR2007070401143.html?hpid=topnews\">evacuate the Mall<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d be a little ticked if I were one of those poor sods that arrived at 10am to stake out a primo spot in the shadow of the Washington Monument, but it sounds like the prudent thing to do.\u00c2\u00a0 So nothing noteworthy there.\u00c2\u00a0 But then &#8211; get this &#8211; the evacuation plan actually *worked*.\u00c2\u00a0 People calmly filed into a number of pre-selected buildings surrounding the Mall, where the plan is to wait until the storm passes, and then make a mad dash for spots on the Mall.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I don&#8217;t know about you, but I can&#8217;t recall the last time a Federal emergency response plan anticipated a problem, addressed it adequately, and was then executed correctly.\u00c2\u00a0 But it happened today.\u00c2\u00a0 There may yet be blue skies ahead . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there are big storms rolling in (which is why I&#8217;m here, instead of out grilling), and the National Park Police decided to evacuate the Mall.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d be a little ticked if I were one of those poor sods that arrived at 10am to stake out a primo spot in the shadow of the Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}