{"id":20441,"date":"2025-11-19T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20441"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:41:20","slug":"harbor-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20441","title":{"rendered":"Harbor Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you have been on a cruise in recent years and were paying attention, you have seen these cranes. Now you know they are called “Harbor Horses.” But in some modern ports they have “Harbor Giraffes.” We don’t know why.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The giraffes were found in South Korea and the horses in Japan. I believe both types are an invasive species around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

This is a plug for the Rational Optimist Society<\/a> which pointed out in a recent email newsletter that there is an inverse relationship between construction cranes and housing shortages. More cranes equals more housing means lower housing costs. It is worth a read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you have been on a cruise in recent years and were paying attention, you have seen these cranes. Now you know they are called “Harbor Horses.” But in some modern ports they have “Harbor Giraffes.” We don’t know why. The giraffes were found in South Korea and the horses in Japan. I believe both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[402,7,19],"tags":[104,310,1497,1524,314],"class_list":["post-20441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-business-success","category-travel","tag-humor","tag-business-success","tag-japan","tag-korea","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_4411.jpeg?fit=2379%2C1568&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5jH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20442,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20441\/revisions\/20442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}