{"id":8423,"date":"2011-03-27T15:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T22:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8423"},"modified":"2011-03-27T15:09:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T22:09:03","slug":"one-sign-of-hope-on-japans-long-road-to-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8423","title":{"rendered":"One Sign of Hope on Japan&#8217;s Long Road to Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just one sign of hope among <i>many more<\/i> of sheer despair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/infocus\/2011\/03\/japan-earthquake-two-weeks-later\/100034\/\">from <i>The Atlantic&#8217;s<\/i> amazing photo essay<\/a>, two weeks after Japan&#8217;s great earthquake&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/infocus\/2011\/03\/japan-earthquake-two-weeks-later\/100034\/#img10\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/JapanEarthquake_NakaRoadRestored_031711.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>At left, a road in Naka, running between Tokyo and the Ibaraki prefecture, as photographed on March 11. At right, the same 150-meter section of road fully restored just six days later on March 17.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<p><i>A few new developments over the weekend at Fukushima. Thankfully, none of them <\/i>explosive<i>. Will try to do a quickie update with those new items later tonight if possible. For now, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8420\">our last update on the Fukushima nuclear crisis<\/a> is still largely up-to-date and remains operative, in general. Have been covering new developments all weekend, as they happen, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thebradblog\">via Twitter<\/a>, however, if you&#8217;d like to check that in the short term.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one sign of hope among many more of sheer despair from The Atlantic&#8217;s amazing photo essay, two weeks after Japan&#8217;s great earthquake&#8230; At left, a road in Naka, running between Tokyo and the Ibaraki prefecture, as photographed on March 11. At right, the same 150-meter section of road fully restored just six days later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[473],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}