{"id":6982,"date":"2011-10-25T11:55:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6982"},"modified":"2011-10-25T21:51:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T20:51:53","slug":"the-runaway-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6982","title":{"rendered":"The runaway train in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could an unmanned \u00a0freight train &#8211; long and loaded with dangerous chemicals &#8211; run uncontrolled and at high speed through the USA for two hours? That&#8217;s the premise of the 2010 movie &#8220;Unstoppable&#8221; that I&#8217;ve just seen on DVD &#8211; my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsT-Y.html#Unstoppable\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film claims to be inspired by true events, an incident called the &#8216;Crazy Eights&#8217; which occurred in 2001. The movie exaggerates many of the details, but the core of the narrative is valid as you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CSX_8888_incident\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could an unmanned \u00a0freight train &#8211; long and loaded with dangerous chemicals &#8211; run uncontrolled and at high speed through the USA for two hours? That&#8217;s the premise of the 2010 movie &#8220;Unstoppable&#8221; that I&#8217;ve just seen on DVD &#8211; my review here. The film claims to be inspired by true events, an incident called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6993,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions\/6993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}