{"id":7856,"date":"2016-06-08T14:56:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7856"},"modified":"2016-06-08T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:59:18","slug":"sinking-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7856","title":{"rendered":"Sinking city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what happened in downtown Ottawa, just a 15-minute walk from my home:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/sinkhole-rideau-street-downtown-ottawa-1.3621949\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7857\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rideau-street-ottawa-sinkhole-june-8-2016.jpg\" alt=\"rideau-street-ottawa-sinkhole-june-8-2016\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rideau-street-ottawa-sinkhole-june-8-2016.jpg 940w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rideau-street-ottawa-sinkhole-june-8-2016-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rideau-street-ottawa-sinkhole-june-8-2016-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one big hole. I hope it doesn&#8217;t start swallowing nearby buildings.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I feel very fortunate today that I do not need to commute to work.<\/p>\n<p>And it has happened before, in 1924:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7859\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rideau-1924-sinkhole.jpg\" alt=\"rideau-1924-sinkhole\" width=\"760\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rideau-1924-sinkhole.jpg 760w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rideau-1924-sinkhole-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7856' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops. Here is what happened in downtown Ottawa, just a 15-minute walk from my home: That&#8217;s one big hole. I hope it doesn&#8217;t start swallowing nearby buildings. And yes, I feel very fortunate today that I do not need to commute to work. And it has happened before, in 1924:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,35,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-ottawa","category-personal","category-transportation","category-44-id","category-35-id","category-24-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7861,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions\/7861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}