{"id":16005,"date":"2016-01-04T18:41:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T01:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=16005"},"modified":"2016-01-07T06:42:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:42:35","slug":"obama-mississippi-flooding-an-official-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/obama-mississippi-flooding-an-official-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Mississippi Flooding an Official Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"610\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"repubhubembed\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">President Barack Obama declared on Monday afternoon that the flooding and tornadoes that hit Mississippi in late December constitute an official major disaster. The declaration frees up federal dollars to go toward aiding five particularly storm-struck areas in the state: Benton, Coahoma, Marshall, Quitman and Tippah counties. Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant expressed gratitude to Obama and&hellip;<!--more--><\/p>\n<style>.rhexcerpt{display:none;}<\/style>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rhembed\" src=\"\/\/d2uzdrx7k4koxz.cloudfront.net\/user\/view.act?p=MTMyODA=&#038;c=MzYzNzM1OTI=&#038;fuid=MjEyOTg5OTg=&#038;showDate=true\" height=\"1500\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border:0;overflow-x:hidden;background:transparent;\" allowtransparency=\"yes\" scrolling=\"no\" data-size=\"1192\"><\/iframe><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/d2uzdrx7k4koxz.cloudfront.net\/user\/js\/rh.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- TO HIDE THE DATE, change \"showDate=true\" to \"false\" --> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama declared on Monday afternoon that the flooding and tornadoes that hit Mississippi in late December constitute an official major disaster. The declaration frees up federal dollars to go toward aiding five particularly storm-struck areas in the state: Benton, Coahoma, Marshall, Quitman and Tippah counties. Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant expressed gratitude to Obama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/obama-mississippi-flooding-an-official-disaster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama: Mississippi Flooding an Official Disaster<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[483],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16006,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions\/16006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}