{"id":710539,"date":"2010-04-06T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec80c533970b"},"modified":"2010-04-06T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:42:55","slug":"mexicali-beginning-to-return-to-normal-after-sundays-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/710539","title":{"rendered":"Mexicali beginning to return to normal after Sunday&#8217;s earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses in downtown Mexicali were starting to reopen Tuesday as power was increasingly restored for the first time since Sunday\u2019s 7.2 earthquake just south of here. <\/p>\n<p>A few people were camped out in tents in the city\u2019s parks. But overall the city of a million plus appeared to slowly be returning to normal.<\/p>\n<p>Shopping centers and fast-food restaurants here were also reopening. The flow of people across the border continues but has been greatly reduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMexicali\u2019s been through a lot,\u201d said Eloisa Ramirez, 37, who was shopping downtown. \u201cWe\u2019ll get through this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, across the border in Calexico, Calif., clean-up operations of the downtown area have been completed. But most buildings remain red-tagged.<br \/><\/br>\u00a0 <br \/><\/br>&#8211;Tony Perry in Mexicali \u00a0 <br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses in downtown Mexicali were starting to reopen Tuesday as power was increasingly restored for the first time since Sunday\u2019s 7.2 earthquake just south of here. A few people were camped out in tents in the city\u2019s parks. But overall the city of a million plus appeared to slowly be returning to normal. Shopping centers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YQj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}