{"id":1441,"date":"2009-02-08T18:39:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T08:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2009-02-08T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T11:26:22","slug":"victorian-bushfires-biggest-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Victorian bushfires &#8211; biggest in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 12 fires burning in the State of Victoria, Australia &#8211; 26 blazes in total &#8211; are the biggest in recorded European history. More than 700 homes have been lost and more than 84 people have died with hundreds injured.<\/p>\n<p>There is a google map showing the extent of the disaster<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.gmodules.com\/ig\/ifr?url=http:\/\/mapvisage.appspot.com\/fires\/vicfiresgadget.xml&amp;synd=open&amp;w=500&amp;h=375&amp;title=Victoria+Fires+Map&amp;border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&amp;output=js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The news scenes bring back difficult memories of the Canberra bushfires in 2003. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2009\/02\/08\/2485609.htm?section=justin\"><strong>ABC news <\/strong><\/a>has provided a good overview of the extent of the fires.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts go with those affected by the fires.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12 fires burning in the State of Victoria, Australia &#8211; 26 blazes in total &#8211; are the biggest in recorded European history. More than 700 homes have been lost and more than 84 people have died with hundreds injured. There is a google map showing the extent of the disaster The news scenes bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}