{"id":3786,"date":"2011-03-13T17:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T00:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2014-07-13T20:39:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T00:39:22","slug":"japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/13\/japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have nothing helpful to add to the Japan story, although I&#8217;ve been heartened to see that pretty good articles giving context for what&#8217;s going on have been going up around the net. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/12\/world\/asia\/12codes.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times on building codes<\/a>, for example, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/03\/12\/nuclear-energy-insid.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing on how reactors work &#8211; and fail<\/a>. (Bonus: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/03\/a-japanese-three-mile-island\/72403\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic on how this contrasts with Three Mile Island<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2011\/03\/12\/world\/asia\/the-explosion-at-the-japanese-reactor.html\" target=\"_blank\">NYT visualization of the buildings at Fukushima<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/events\/japan-quake-2011\/beforeafter.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Yuriage-Natori-ABC-AU1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Yuriage-Natori-ABC-AU\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>ABC in Australia took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/events\/japan-quake-2011\/beforeafter.htm\" target=\"_blank\">aerial photos from before and after the tsunami<\/a>, and arranged them so you can move your mouse across the before image to reveal the damage&mdash;and, heartbreakingly, move it back again, an option available only online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have nothing helpful to add to the Japan story, although I&#8217;ve been heartened to see that pretty good articles giving context for what&#8217;s going on have been going up around the net. New York Times on building codes, for example, and Boing Boing on how reactors work &#8211; and fail. (Bonus: The Atlantic on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[31,390,655,836,1001,1205,1251],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","tag-abc-australia","tag-earthquake","tag-japan","tag-new-york-times","tag-reactor","tag-the-atlantic","tag-tsunami"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4OKzG-japan","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4995,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/4995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}