{"id":3612,"date":"2010-08-31T18:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T23:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2010-08-31T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T01:24:09","slug":"our-decrepit-infrastructures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/08\/our-decrepit-infrastructures\/","title":{"rendered":"our decrepit infrastructures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of last Monday&#8217;s Long Island Rail Road snafu &#8212; where &#8220;a tiny electrical fire in an obscure contraption of levers and pulleys installed nearly a century ago&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h-Rq-0v93H2bu06TPI2myuwtHXYQD9HPJTTO3\">knocked out train service<\/a> for hours &#8212; the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/29\/weekinreview\/29grynbaum.html?_r=1&amp;em=&amp;pagewanted=all\">looks at five other American infrastructures<\/a> which are exceptionally vulnerable due to the combination of &#8220;antiquated hardware and delayed maintenance&#8221;, from levees in California&#8217;s Central Valley (threatened by rotting wooden stumps, squirrels, and beavers) to the four hundred and eighty relay rooms of New York City&#8217;s subway system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of last Monday&#8217;s Long Island Rail Road snafu &#8212; where &#8220;a tiny electrical fire in an obscure contraption of levers and pulleys installed nearly a century ago&#8221; knocked out train service for hours &#8212; the New York Times looks at five other American infrastructures which are exceptionally vulnerable due to the combination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,137,15],"tags":[458],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-engineering","category-infrastructure","tag-failure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3614,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}