{"id":6254,"date":"2012-04-30T18:03:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6254"},"modified":"2012-04-30T18:03:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:03:47","slug":"billionaire-says-something-that-isnt-seaworthy-about-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/04\/billionaire-says-something-that-isnt-seaworthy-about-titanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire says something that isn&#8217;t seaworthy about Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course it wouldn&#8217;t be news if you said you were going to build a fourth &#8216;Olympic&#8217; class vessel, if you were going to mention it&#8217;s a rebuild of the Brittanic (sunk by a mine in 1916), or \u00a0the Olympic (retired in 1935 after 24 years of service). Far better to say it&#8217;s a rebuild of the Titanic, call it Titanic 2, and then invite 1000 of the word&#8217;s most famous celebrities aboard for the maiden voyage.<\/p>\n<p>What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course it wouldn&#8217;t be news if you said you were going to build a fourth &#8216;Olympic&#8217; class vessel, if you were going to mention it&#8217;s a rebuild of the Brittanic (sunk by a mine in 1916), or \u00a0the Olympic (retired in 1935 after 24 years of service). Far better to say it&#8217;s a rebuild of the Titanic, call it Titanic 2, and then invite 1000 of the word&#8217;s most famous celebrities aboard for the maiden voyage. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[3610,3609,2365,3608],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","tag-brittanic","tag-gigantic","tag-olympic","tag-titanic","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1CS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}