{"id":3879,"date":"2011-12-28T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2011-12-28T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T18:00:51","slug":"the-gate-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3879","title":{"rendered":"The Gate of Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a really unusual place for your next vacation?<\/p>\n<p>Consider Darvaza, Turkmenistan<\/p>\n<p>In 1971, Soviet drillers caused the collapse of an underground cavern, which swallowed the drilling rig.\u00a0\u00a0 Natural gas was coming from the crater, and it was lit on fire to flare off the gas.\u00a0\u00a0 40 years later it is still burning.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Flaming Gas Crater (Night) \/ Turkmenistan, Darvaza\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7we6mz0TyZA?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>This has some similarities to the Centralia Pennsylvania coal mine fire, which has been burning since 1962 &#8211; there is realistically no way to put out the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a really unusual place for your next vacation? Consider Darvaza, Turkmenistan In 1971, Soviet drillers caused the collapse of an underground cavern, which swallowed the drilling rig.\u00a0\u00a0 Natural gas was coming from the crater, and it was lit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3879\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","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=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}