{"id":35608,"date":"2018-03-15T13:14:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=35608"},"modified":"2018-03-15T13:25:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:25:30","slug":"instant-bridge-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/15\/instant-bridge-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Instant&#8221; bridge, indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Florida International University in Miami <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/west-miami-dade\/article204506084.html\" target=\"_blank\">installed an &#8220;instant bridge&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; a 950-ton span to allow students to more safely cross the Tamiami Trail. <\/p>\n<p>The $14 million pedestrian structure, funded by the federal government, whose main span went up in a single day, was scheduled to open next year.<\/p>\n<p>Today, five days after its rapid rise, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2018\/03\/15\/miami-pedestrian-bridge-collapses-near-university-cars-trapped-underneath\/429061002\/\" target=\"_blank\">it came crashing down<\/a> on the busy eight-lane highway below.<\/p>\n<p>Still a developing story. Fatalities, but number unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Florida International University in Miami installed an &#8220;instant bridge&#8221; &#8212; a 950-ton span to allow students to more safely cross the Tamiami Trail. The $14 million pedestrian structure, funded by the federal government, whose main span went up in a single day, was scheduled to open next year. Today, five days after its rapid rise, it came crashing down on the busy eight-lane highway below. Still a developing story. Fatalities, but number unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35608"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35616,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35608\/revisions\/35616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}