{"id":301,"date":"2014-01-06T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2014-01-28T12:47:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:47:45","slug":"the-left-coast-lifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"The Left Coast Lifter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Left Coast Lifter is a massive crane which is being brought from San Fransisco to New York to work on the new Tappan Zee Bridge.\u00a0 By a strange stroke of luck, I happened to be biking on the new bridge it built in San Fransisco at the moment it put out to sea.\u00a0 What luck!\u00a0 Since I saw it leave the Left Coast on December 22nd, I might be able to figure out when it will get here!\u00a0 All I have to do is use Google Earth to measure the distance.\u00a0 It was travling about 8.2\u00a0nautical miles per hour (carefull that&#8217;s not the same as miles per hour!)\u00a0when I saw it go.\u00a0 That should be all I need to figure out when it will get here!\u00a0\u00a0Try it yourself and post your estimate in the comments.\u00a0\u00a0Let&#8217;s see who gets the closest! \u00a0Good luck!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_302\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/?attachment_id=302\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302\" class=\" wp-image-302\" title=\"the Left Coast Lifter Leaving California\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/leftcoastlowres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/leftcoastlowres-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/leftcoastlowres-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the Left Coast Lifter Leaving California<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Left Coast Lifter is a massive crane which is being brought from San Fransisco to New York to work on the new Tappan Zee Bridge.\u00a0 By a strange stroke of luck, I happened to be biking on the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/?p=301\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jacobtanenbaum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}