{"id":375399,"date":"2017-09-19T10:20:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5643039e46338905505d1a1cd8497b0c"},"modified":"2017-09-19T10:20:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:20:03","slug":"hurricanes-flood-insurance-and-the-dangers-of-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=375399","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes, flood insurance and the dangers of &#8216;business as usual&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, it was reported that up to 80% of home damages were not insured. Insurance schemes are widely advocated as a means of facilitating recovery from \u2013 or resilience to \u2013 natural and human-made disasters. For those without insurance, or who are under-insured, recovery prospects are bleak. Many such people \u2013 who are often already living in precarious situations \u2013 will leave their homes, never to return, or will live in properties that are unfit for habitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, it was reported that up to 80% of home damages were not insured. Insurance schemes are widely advocated as a means of facilitating recovery from &ndash; or resilience to &ndash; natural and human-made disasters. For those without insurance, or who are under-insured, recovery prospects are bleak. Many such people &ndash; who are often already living in precarious situations &ndash; will leave their homes, never to return, or will live in properties that are unfit for habitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375400,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375399\/revisions\/375400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}