{"id":8688,"date":"2010-09-02T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T12:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/02\/another-gulf-oil-rig-has-explo\/"},"modified":"2010-09-02T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T12:03:20","slug":"another-gulf-oil-rig-has-explo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/another-gulf-oil-rig-has-explo\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Gulf Oil Rig Has Exploded"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.<\/p>\n<p>A commercial helicopter company reported the blast around 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday, Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said. Seven helicopters, two airplanes and four boats were en route to the site, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central Louisiana coast.<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard said initial reports indicated all 13 crew members from the rig were in the water. One was injured, but there were no deaths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129603017&#038;sc=nl&#038;cc=brk-20100902-1141\">details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill. A commercial helicopter company reported the blast around 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday, Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said. Seven helicopters, two airplanes and four boats were en route &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/another-gulf-oil-rig-has-explo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Gulf Oil Rig Has Exploded<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4412],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2g8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688"}],"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=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}