{"id":4865,"date":"2011-05-28T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T22:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2011-06-18T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:16:00","slug":"artificial-crevasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/artificial-crevasse\/","title":{"rendered":"artificial crevasse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4866\" title=\"artificial-crevasse\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/artificial-crevasse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/artificial-crevasse.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/artificial-crevasse-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\n[Before <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-mississippi-river-flood-of-1927\/\">the 1928 Flood Control Act<\/a>, the Mississippi River flood control plan <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2001\/05\/0501_river4.html\">consisted of two basic elements<\/a>: levees and outlets. \u00a0Earthern levees would hold the water back. \u00a0When necessary, outlets would be utilized to divert flood waters. \u00a0In an emergency, more levees could be created with sandbags; more outlets could be created by blowing levees up. \u00a0Here, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photolib.noaa.gov\/htmls\/wea00739.htm\">a\u00a0levee is dynamited to create an artificial crevasse<\/a> &#8212; a crack or breach in a levee or dike &#8212; at Caernarvon, Louisiana, reducing pressure on levees in New Orleans.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Before the 1928 Flood Control Act, the Mississippi River flood control plan consisted of two basic elements: levees and outlets. \u00a0Earthern levees would hold the water back. \u00a0When necessary, outlets would be utilized to divert flood waters. \u00a0In an emergency, more levees could be created with sandbags; more outlets could be created by blowing levees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,594,15],"tags":[612,601,118,591],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-floods","category-infrastructure","tag-612","tag-crevasse","tag-flood-control","tag-mississippi-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","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=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}