{"id":1195,"date":"2010-10-13T21:27:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T01:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2010-10-14T12:29:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T16:29:36","slug":"rescue-of-the-chilean-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/13\/rescue-of-the-chilean-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue of the Chilean miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ChileRescue.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ChileRescue.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Chilean rescued flag\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1196\" \/><\/a>The rescue of the Chilean miners has been a great triumph of engineering and the human spirt.  Congratulations to the nation of Chile and everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p>What a great story, and what great television.  I started watching the first three miners rescued last night and watched a more of the rescues on-line at work.<\/p>\n<p>The images were compelling; the large pulley wheel turning counter-clockwise as the rescue pod went down, clockwise as it hauled someone up.  A variety of faces and emotions up top in HD contrasted against the minors below in grainy digital video.<\/p>\n<p>Every 20 minutes the pod showed up at each end of the hole bored to rescue the miners.  At the bottom an excited minor either welcomed a rescuer or jumped aboard the rescue pod.  Then 20 minutes later there was an emotional reunion with loved ones at the surface &#8211; each with its own back story.<\/p>\n<p>The miners have made a pact to share the profits of their story and not to only tell the story starting after the first 17 days &#8211; only building the integer.  Here&#8217;s hoping they make the most of their ordeal and their able to tell their story and benefit from it.  Here&#8217;s hoping that other miners benefit from a closer look at their safety after this.<\/p>\n<p>For now it felt good to have a disaster end in great news that the whole world could be a part of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rescue of the Chilean miners has been a great triumph of engineering and the human spirt. Congratulations to the nation of Chile and everyone involved. What a great story, and what great television. I started watching the first three miners rescued last night and watched a more of the rescues on-line at work. The&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/13\/rescue-of-the-chilean-miners\/\">Continue Reading<span> Rescue of the Chilean miners<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,5,7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}