{"id":4988,"date":"2011-09-25T07:38:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T14:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2011-09-25T07:38:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T14:38:01","slug":"titanic-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=4988","title":{"rendered":"Titanic Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hundredth anniversary of the launching and sinking of the Titanic are next year and I just read a book about it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Survive-Titanic-Sinking-Bruce\/dp\/0062094548\/ref=cm_rdp_product\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>How to Survive the Titanic<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Frances Wilson.\u00a0 My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/RK4TEGEXOIPQT\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>review of the book is on Amazon<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite quote from the book:\u00a0<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;A marvelous achievement, is not necessarily interesting.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Conrad writing about steam ships vs sailing ships<\/p>\n<p>My maternal grandfather is an Ismay so I am distantly related to Bruce Ismay who was the builder of the Titanic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hundredth anniversary of the launching and sinking of the Titanic are next year and I just read a book about it: How to Survive the Titanic by Frances Wilson.\u00a0 My review of the book is on Amazon. My favorite quote from the book:\u00a0 &#8220;A marvelous achievement, is not necessarily interesting.&#8221; Joseph Conrad writing about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[5],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says","tag-titanic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1is","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","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=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4989,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}