{"id":9950,"date":"2013-01-08T14:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/sen-harry-reid-sparks-outrage-over-comparison-of-hurricane-sandy-to-katrina\/"},"modified":"2013-01-08T15:56:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T22:56:50","slug":"sen-harry-reid-sparks-outrage-over-comparison-of-hurricane-sandy-to-katrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/sen-harry-reid-sparks-outrage-over-comparison-of-hurricane-sandy-to-katrina\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Harry Reid sparks outrage over comparison of Hurricane Sandy to Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid\u2019s comment last week that those who suffered the effects of Hurricane Katrina had it easy as compared to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy has sparked a quick and vicious response. Sen. David Vitter called the Democrat leader \u2018an idiot\u2019 Monday and Reid was forced to issue an apology. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/sen-harry-reid-sparks-outrage-over-comparison-of-hurricane-sandy-to-katrina?cid=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story and see video of Reid&#8217;s comments on Examiner.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/video\/reid-hurricane-katrina-was-nothing-comparison-to-sandy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) rubs his eyes during the counting of the Electorial College votes. Reid's comments minimizing the victims of Hurricane Katrina have sparked outrage. (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/a7\/3d\/a73d24926b8eb65cb1dc7875ab5ab7e4.jpg\" alt=\"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) rubs his eyes during the counting of the Electorial College votes. Reid's comments minimizing the victims of Hurricane Katrina have sparked outrage. (Getty Images)\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) rubs his eyes during the counting of the Electorial College votes. Reid&#39;s comments minimizing the victims of Hurricane Katrina have sparked outrage. (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid\u2019s comment last week that those who suffered the effects of Hurricane Katrina had it easy as compared to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy has sparked a quick and vicious response. Sen. David Vitter called the Democrat leader \u2018an idiot\u2019 Monday and Reid was forced to issue an apology. \u00a0Read the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/sen-harry-reid-sparks-outrage-over-comparison-of-hurricane-sandy-to-katrina\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sen. Harry Reid sparks outrage over comparison of Hurricane Sandy to Katrina<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540,8],"tags":[464,620,303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9951,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950\/revisions\/9951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}