{"id":40793,"date":"2014-01-13T14:21:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/tearing-down-really-big-stuff.html"},"modified":"2014-01-13T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:21:21","slug":"tearing-down-really-big-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/tearing-down-really-big-stuff.html","title":{"rendered":"Tearing Down Really Big Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Not surprisingly, it&#39;s almost as complicated as building really big stuff in the first place.\ufeff<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/TzHbgqj__-LqX0vVZH2ZRNqOQqWnlFDtUiima509KxqbCY8ng_QBLxkrzA2QsXduaHmYBQvP6EHjUDnY6Q4fd0c21ezOVjLwql9zT0edypCmaxAkk1Ba0WzoJ8itcyef1sOLb10=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/12\/demolish-the-bay-bridge\/?cid=16986604'>The Dangerous Art of Tearing Down Bridges, Dams, and Aircraft Carriers &#8211; Wired Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/PmnEDy4Ns2E' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, it&#39;s almost as complicated as building really big stuff in the first place.\ufeff The Dangerous Art of Tearing Down Bridges, Dams, and Aircraft Carriers &#8211; Wired Science View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51288,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/yet-another-division-tearing-this-country-apart.html","url_meta":{"origin":40793,"position":0},"title":"Yet another division tearing this country apart","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-May-15 10:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"I speak, of course, about the Great Starbucks vs. Dunkin' Donuts Split.I beg you -- think of the children. 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