{"id":505,"date":"2012-01-09T20:07:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T20:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=505"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:01:50","slug":"still-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/still-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"still earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/earthquake.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/earthquake3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27\" width=\"269\" height=\"202\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>nearly a year has passed since the\nearthquake that devastated central christchurch, but the city is\nstill a mess and the frequent aftershocks continue (although i was\nthere for about 36 hours at the weekend and didn&#8217;t feel the earth\nmove). everywhere there are deserted houses, ragged curtains flapping\nthrough broken windows, leaning letterboxes, fallen fences, overgrown\ngardens, braced walls and signs declaring &#8220;danger! keep out!&#8221;.\nthe house next to where we stayed is abandoned, its garage entrance\ntaped with &#8220;danger&#8221; tape. there are empty sections, some\nrecently cleared and other still with the bulldozed remains of\nbuildings. at the arts centre &#8211; formerly the university, stone\nbuildings about 150 years old &#8211; a salvaged turret sits oddly on the\nground next to its damaged tower. a few blocks away a turret from\nwhat must have been a beautiful old wooden house sits beside the\nrubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/earthquake2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-158\" width=\"367\" height=\"276\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>we drove out to the hills above sumner,\nto check out the home of friends which was so badly damaged it will\nhave to be demolished. ferry road, which leads to sumner, has been\nresurfaced, but not levelled &#8211; driving along it feels more like\nsurfing on gentle but unpredictable swells. the road up the hill\nbecomes worse, with large depressions and damage to the edges. when\nwe arrive at the house, what hits me immediately is the silence. it&#8217;s\na warm sunday afternoon in january &#8211; normally people would be working\nin their gardens, doing a bit of home repairs, cleaning cars,\nchildren would be playing &#8230; there&#8217;s nothing but birds. nearly all\nof the houses in this street have been so badly damaged that no-one\ncan live there. it&#8217;s heartbreaking to walk around our friends&#8217; house\n&#8211; all the bricks have falled off, many windows broken, cracks all\naround the foundation, in places revealing broken joists under the\nfloor. when we visited almost 2 years ago, they were finishing\nrenovations and starting work on the garden. we water the garden,\nwhich is overgrown but thriving, with this year&#8217;s brocolli &amp;\nbeans nearly finished, apricots &amp; apples beginning to ripen.\nacross the road, a curtain flaps sadly through a broken window. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nearly a year has passed since the earthquake that devastated central christchurch, but the city is still a mess and the frequent aftershocks continue (although<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/still-earth\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}