{"id":17865,"date":"2017-09-05T05:10:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T11:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=17865"},"modified":"2017-09-05T05:10:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T11:10:46","slug":"caribbean-girds-for-hurricane-irma-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/caribbean-girds-for-hurricane-irma-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean girds for Hurricane Irma threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"610\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<blockquote class=\"repubhubembed\">\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">Irma, a still strengthening and dangerous Category Four hurricane, churned toward the Leeward Islands early Tuesday, sparking alarm and alerts from the Caribbean to Florida, which declared an emergency. The National Hurricane Center said at 0300 GMT that the storm was packing top sustained winds of 140 mph (220 km\/h). &#8220;Additional strengthening is forecast during the&hellip;<!--more--><\/p>\n<style scoped>.repubhubembed{display:none;}<\/style>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"rhembed\" src=\"\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/view.act?fuid=MjYwNzE5NTQ=&#038;s=repubhub&#038;showFirstImage=true&#038;showDate=false\" height=\"1500\" style=\"width:100%;border:0;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\"  data-canonical=\"https:\/\/repubhub.icopyright.net\/freePost.act?tag=3.14122?icx_id=20170904.doc-s43xj\" ><\/iframe><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/js\/rh.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- TO HIDE THE DATE OR FIRST IMAGE, change \"showDate=true\" or \"showFirstImage=true\" to \"false\" --> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irma, a still strengthening and dangerous Category Four hurricane, churned toward the Leeward Islands early Tuesday, sparking alarm and alerts from the Caribbean to Florida, which declared an emergency. The National Hurricane Center said at 0300 GMT that the storm was packing top sustained winds of 140 mph (220 km\/h). &#8220;Additional strengthening is forecast during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/caribbean-girds-for-hurricane-irma-threat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Caribbean girds for Hurricane Irma threat<\/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":[5,8],"tags":[50,793],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865"}],"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=17865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17866,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865\/revisions\/17866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}