{"id":12370,"date":"2012-06-12T10:18:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=12370"},"modified":"2012-06-12T10:18:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:18:36","slug":"escape-from-alcatraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/12\/escape-from-alcatraz\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape from Alcatraz!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>50 years ago today, three men did the impossible.  They escaped from Alcatraz.  They may or may not have lived.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the promise was made that if they escaped, lived, then continued to live, they would return today.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/06\/12\/154766199\/50-years-later-mystery-of-alcatraz-escape-endures\">There are people waiting on Alcatraz today<\/a>, including the sister of one of the men.  So, we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Mean time, here&#8217;s the trailer from the movie, &#8220;Escape from Alcatraz&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UT4kc5jG990\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In case you were interested in escaping from Alcatraz yourself, you could try this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/URaJItuhqro\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, the MythBusters tackled the story and here&#8217;s what they came up with:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"dit-video-embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/static.discoverymedia.com\/videos\/components\/dsc\/dc6e1bbdc835de0b05f4a4e091075a2c0c5846c0\/snag-it-player.html?auto=no\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lisakayaks\/7310518630\/sizes\/c\/in\/photostream\/\">kayakeverywhere<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 years ago today, three men did the impossible. They escaped from Alcatraz. They may or may not have lived. Apparently, the promise was made that if they escaped, lived, then continued to live, they would return today. There are people waiting on Alcatraz today, including the sister of one of the men. So, we&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/12\/escape-from-alcatraz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Escape from Alcatraz!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3dw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}