{"id":786,"date":"2010-06-17T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T08:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/06\/life-among-the-small-people.html"},"modified":"2010-06-17T08:59:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T08:59:40","slug":"life-among-the-small-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/06\/life-among-the-small-people.html","title":{"rendered":"Life among the small people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies who don&#8217;t care. But that is not the case in BP. We care about the small people.&#8221; &#8212; <i>Carl-Henric Svanberg, BP chairman, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUKTRE65G0QF20100617\">later apologized <\/a>for his poor grasp of the English language.<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/revolution-21.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/life-with-small-people.html\">Mighty Favog <\/a>points us to this short clip made by Phin Percy, Walker Percy&#8217;s nephew, of one Grand Isle resident&#8217;s point of view on the disaster.<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1vYi_Ic9U3E&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1vYi_Ic9U3E&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object>Julie and I are thinking about driving to Grand Isle with the kids one day this week, just so they can see what is happening to a place where their father played and fished as a boy. 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