{"id":3930,"date":"2007-08-08T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2017-11-25T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T19:19:29","slug":"in-case-of-catastrophic-failure-an-alarm-will-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/08\/in-case-of-catastrophic-failure-an-alarm-will-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"In Case Of Catastrophic Failure, An Alarm Will Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=644004\" target=\"_new\">Wisconsin to install monitors on 15 bridges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Wisconsin Department of Transportation will install devices on 15 bridges to monitor unusual movements, officials announced Tuesday, six days after the fatal I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>The devices, called accelerometers, will be placed on the 15 bridges in Wisconsin that have support structures similar to the Minneapolis bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Accelerometers work much like seismometers, which measure movements of the Earth, and will gauge horizontal and vertical movements in the bridge supports. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to the state government of Wisconsin for spending tax dollars making a public gesture that won&#8217;t actually fix anything.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps if they installed <i>cameras<\/i>, too, so they could have pictures of the actual collapse as well, kinda like security cameras favored by police departments don&#8217;t prevent but allow government officials to watch governmental failures in progress from the safety of their offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin to install monitors on 15 bridges: The Wisconsin Department of Transportation will install devices on 15 bridges to monitor unusual movements, officials announced Tuesday, six days after the fatal I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis. The devices, called accelerometers, will be placed on the 15 bridges in Wisconsin that have support structures similar to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-on-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17915,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions\/17915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}