{"id":15445,"date":"2016-06-08T13:09:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15445"},"modified":"2016-06-08T14:07:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:07:54","slug":"panama-canal-expansion-ready-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15445","title":{"rendered":"Panama Canal expansion ready ahead of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it is really 2 years behind schedule, but it looks like the June 26th date for the first COSCO container ship to go through is still on target.  I read a story that the contractor has said work is complete, but now I can&#8217;t find the story \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Haege, the syndicated weekend radio guy who used to be affiliated with K-Mart has a statement about a fundamental scientific principle &#8211; &#8220;water wins&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Panama Canal&#039;s Cocoli Lock Crack\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EbnQs-qMqsM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To help understand what you are looking at, this was a test specifically looking for leaks.  This is the sill underneath one of the lock gates.  Normally the lower level lock would be filled to above the sill, creating back pressure, so this is not the normal situation.<\/p>\n<p>The situation that scares the crap out of people who design locks is a complete failure, in which case the entire water volume from the higher level will rush through as fast as it can.   The Panama Canal is also significant as it is a pathway between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean and a pathway for invasive species<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ocean.si.edu\/ocean-videos\/researching-invasive-species-near-panama-canal\">http:\/\/ocean.si.edu\/ocean-videos\/researching-invasive-species-near-panama-canal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it is really 2 years behind schedule, but it looks like the June 26th date for the first COSCO container ship to go through is still on target. I read a story that the contractor has said work is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15445\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-finances","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15448,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15445\/revisions\/15448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}