{"id":23914,"date":"2013-01-03T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T20:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=23914"},"modified":"2013-01-03T14:09:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T20:09:58","slug":"watery-graves-in-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=23914","title":{"rendered":"Watery Graves in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/slideshow\/Sinking-cemeteries-54636.php#photo-3977854\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SinkingCemeteriesOfLouisiana-250pw.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"In this Dec. 29, 2012 photo, South Lafourche Levee District General Manager Windell Curole, who also serves on the state&#039;s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, walks through his small family cemetery which sits along the bayou near Leeville, La. Some 11 cemeteries in Jefferson Parish have repeatedly flooded since Katrina, and in Lafourche, Terrebonne and Plaquemines parishes, more than a dozen others have succumbed to tidal surges. Curole said saltwater from the Gulf is causing a crippling subsidence problem. (Dave Martin, AP)\" width=\"250\" height=\"170\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23916\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere is a very interesting pictorial slide show, made up of 10 pictures with detailed captions, about the sinking cemeteries of coastal Louisiana, It seems that eleven cemeteries in Jefferson Parish have repeatedly flooded since Hurricane Katrina, and in Lafourche, Terrebonne and Plaquemines parishes, more than a dozen burial sites have succumbed to tidal surges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/slideshow\/Sinking-cemeteries-54636.php#photo-3977854\">See the &#8220;Sinking Cemeteries&#8221; post at the TimesUnion.com website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a very interesting pictorial slide show, made up of 10 pictures with detailed captions, about the sinking cemeteries of coastal Louisiana, It seems that eleven cemeteries in Jefferson Parish have repeatedly flooded since Hurricane Katrina, and in Lafourche, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=23914\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Watery Graves in Louisiana<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries","category-louisiana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23918,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23914\/revisions\/23918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}