{"id":10330,"date":"2007-02-15T12:49:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T19:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/02\/15\/thats-a-big-ship.html"},"modified":"2007-02-15T12:49:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T19:49:16","slug":"thats_a_big_ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/15\/thats_a_big_ship.html","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s &#8230; a big ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Queen Mary II slips under the Golden Gate Bridge (SF Chronicle)\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/qm2-ggb.jpg\" width=\"580\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>It takes a big ship to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/object\/article?o=6&amp;f=\/c\/a\/2007\/02\/04\/BAGHINUQDA5.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">make the Golden Gate Bridge look small(er)<\/a>.  In this case, the <em>Queen Mary II<\/em>, which passed under the bridge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/02\/04\/BAGHINUQDA5.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">with just thirty feet to spare<\/a>.  Yikes!<\/p>\n<p><small> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/02\/12778.html\" target=\"_blank\">kottke<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a big ship to make the Golden Gate Bridge look small(er). 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