{"id":1704,"date":"2005-09-06T17:23:37","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T15:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1704.html"},"modified":"2014-01-18T21:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T20:00:49","slug":"doomed-to-repeat-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2005\/09\/06\/doomed-to-repeat-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomed to Repeat It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons from history: the <em>Titanic<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Engineering can&#8217;t prevent disasters.  All it can do is make them less likely and make their impacts less severe.  Water, in particular, always finds a way in.  Plan accordingly.<\/li>\n<li>Everybody gets a seat on the lifeboat.  Anything else &#8211; like an evacuation plan that only saves people with access to a car &#8211; is criminal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>At least when the <em>Titanic<\/em> sank, rescue was prompt.<\/p>\n<p>That is all I can bear to post about Hurricane Katrina.  I know no one from New Orleans, yet the whole affair breaks my heart.  I regret that I never saw it in its former glory, but I would trade a lifetime of longing to see it for the lives that were lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons from history: the Titanic Engineering can&#8217;t prevent disasters. All it can do is make them less likely and make their impacts less severe. Water, in particular, always finds a way in. Plan accordingly. Everybody gets a seat on the lifeboat. Anything else &#8211; like an evacuation plan that only saves people with access to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2005\/09\/06\/doomed-to-repeat-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doomed to Repeat It<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[1652],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-katrina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}