{"id":837,"date":"2012-04-01T16:38:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T21:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=837"},"modified":"2012-04-01T16:38:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T21:38:35","slug":"onagawa-nuke-plant-saved-from-tsunami-by-one-mans-strength-determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Onagawa nuke plant saved from tsunami by one man&#8217;s strength, determination"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The breakwater that proved so inadequate to the task of protecting the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant from the ocean was 10 meters high. The one defending the Onagawa nuclear plant is 14.8 meters tall, and it turns out Hirai had to fight a one-man war to get it built. The reason he was so determined was his careful study of the past, which revealed that in the year 869 a massive tsunami had hit the spot where the Onagawa plant now stands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/mdn.mainichi.jp\/perspectives\/pulse\/news\/20120319p2a00m0na020000c.html\">Onagawa nuke plant saved from tsunami by one man&#8217;s strength, determination &#8211; The Mainichi Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The breakwater that proved so inadequate to the task of protecting the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant from the ocean was 10 meters high. The one defending the Onagawa nuclear plant is 14.8 meters tall, and it turns out Hirai &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=837\">Continue reading <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":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}