{"id":1557,"date":"2024-01-17T11:56:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T11:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/what-i-learned-when-a-once-in-100-years-flood-hit-my-city-10-years-after-the-last-one-nell-frizzell\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T11:56:41","slug":"what-i-learned-when-a-once-in-100-years-flood-hit-my-city-10-years-after-the-last-one-nell-frizzell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/what-i-learned-when-a-once-in-100-years-flood-hit-my-city-10-years-after-the-last-one-nell-frizzell\/","title":{"rendered":"What I learned when a \u2018once in 100 years\u2019 flood hit my city \u2013 10 years after the last one | Nell Frizzell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dad was completely flooded in on his boat, with just a ukulele and three potatoes to tide him over. A bad situation, certainly \u2013 but still a better bet, perhaps, than those of us living in bricks and mortar<\/p>\n<p>My dad lives on a boat. Despite the earrings, tattoos, missing teeth and bare feet, he is not a pirate \u2013 just a man with an expensive divorce and a public sector job, living in one of the most unaffordable cities in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>This month, his mooring in Oxford was hit by the kind of flood described as \u201conce in 100 years\u201d. Except the same thing happened 10 years ago. And three years before that. All along the same stretch of water.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/jan\/17\/what-i-learned-when-a-once-in-100-years-flood-hit-my-city-10-years-after-the-last-one\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad was completely flooded in on his boat, with just a ukulele and three potatoes to tide him over. A bad situation, certainly \u2013 but still a better bet, perhaps, than those of us living in bricks and mortar My dad lives on a boat. Despite the earrings, tattoos, missing teeth and bare feet, &#8230; <a title=\"What I learned when a \u2018once in 100 years\u2019 flood hit my city \u2013 10 years after the last one | Nell Frizzell\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/what-i-learned-when-a-once-in-100-years-flood-hit-my-city-10-years-after-the-last-one-nell-frizzell\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What I learned when a \u2018once in 100 years\u2019 flood hit my city \u2013 10 years after the last one | Nell Frizzell\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}