{"id":273,"date":"2003-08-16T11:59:00-04:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-16T19:59:00+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=273"},"modified":"2005-02-18T23:19:12-05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-19T04:19:12+00:00","slug":"the-great-blackout-of-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2003\/08\/16\/the-great-blackout-of-03\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Blackout of&nbsp;&#8217;03"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Back at the turn of the twenty-first century there was a huge electrical blackout in North America.  Some 50 million people in two countries lost power for an entire day, many for even longer.<\/p>\r\n<p>I was one of those 50 million people.  This is what it looked like from here.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Picture of blacked-out downtown London, August 14, 2003\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/2003\/08\/16\/dscf0011-balanced.med.jpg\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back at the turn of the twenty-first century there was a huge electrical blackout in North America. Some 50 million people in two countries lost power for an entire day, many for even longer. I was one of those 50 million people. This is what it looked like from here.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}