{"id":412,"date":"2009-02-23T16:07:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=412"},"modified":"2013-10-30T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:45:56","slug":"flood-of-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2009\/02\/23\/flood-of-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood of memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By February in Iowa, ice, snow, and freezing temperatures have dragged on for so long that it becomes hard to remember a time when it wasn&#8217;t winter. Luckily, our new <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/flood\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa City Flood Digital Collection<\/a> brings the summer back in vivid detail. As documented in the collection&#8217;s photographs and oral history interviews, only a little over six months ago the streets were filled with thousands of overheated volunteers, millions of sandbags and several feet of displaced Iowa River.<\/p>\n<p>It kind of makes us appreciate the cold.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Jen Wolfe, Metadata Librarian<br \/>\nDigital Library Services<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/flood\/id\/2459\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-413 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/02\/flood1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/02\/flood1.jpg 333w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/02\/flood1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/flood\/id\/2867\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-417\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/02\/flood3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/02\/flood3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/02\/flood3-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/flood\/id\/300\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-416 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/02\/flood2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/02\/flood2.jpg 332w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/02\/flood2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By February in Iowa, ice, snow, and freezing temperatures have dragged on for so long that it becomes hard to remember a time when it wasn&#8217;t winter. Luckily, our new Iowa City Flood Digital Collection brings the summer back in vivid detail. As documented in the collection&#8217;s photographs and oral history interviews, only a little<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2009\/02\/23\/flood-of-memories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Flood of memories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}