{"id":570,"date":"2007-12-10T12:54:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T12:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/10\/fellow-minnesotans-we-made-it\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T12:54:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T12:54:39","slug":"fellow-minnesotans-we-made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/fellow-minnesotans-we-made-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow Minnesotans!  We Made it to a Time Top Ten List!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re Number Five for the Bridge Collapse:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-8fef339aacdc90ccfc0bfadcabefb282-manmade_minnesota_bridge.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-8fef339aacdc90ccfc0bfadcabefb282-manmade_minnesota_bridge.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bridges failed this year in China and in Guinea, killing 64 and 70 people, respectively. But the disaster that really grabbed U.S. headlines was the collapse of the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis on August 1, where the death toll reached only 9. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->I was in the Kalahari when the bridge fell.  I heard about it this way:&#8221;Oh, did you hear that the bridge in Minnesota fell down yesterday?&#8221;(they don&#8217;t have a lot of bridges in South Africa.  That would require rivers..)&#8221;Which bridge?&#8221; I asked.Next day:  &#8220;Oh, I found out, it was the bridge over the Mississippi River.&#8221;&#8230; this went on for a while, until we finally got to a phone and called Amanda&#8217;s step-Mom, who always knows a lot of stuff.  She filled us in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re Number Five for the Bridge Collapse: Bridges failed this year in China and in Guinea, killing 64 and 70 people, respectively. But the disaster that really grabbed U.S. headlines was the collapse of the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis on August 1, where the death toll reached only 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[193],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-9c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}