{"id":651,"date":"2008-09-15T15:45:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T23:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=651"},"modified":"2009-09-21T18:04:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T02:04:25","slug":"sliding-towards-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"Sliding towards Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might recall <a href=\"?p=459\">the balcony whose photo I posted on 14 August<\/a>.  I noticed to-day that in the last month there has been a further decline.  Here, showing the bottoms of the two eastern supports, is a detail from a photo taken then: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/balcbase00.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" alt=\"[image of bases of eastern support posts on 14 August]\" \/> The south-eastern support was the big problem.  Here's the base of the <em>north<\/em>-eastern support: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/balcbase01.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" alt=\"[image of base of north-eastern support post on 14 August]\" \/> Here's a photo from to-day: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/balcbase10.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" alt=\"[image of bases of eastern support posts on 15 September]\" \/> The south-eastern support is still the worst of the four, but look at the base of the north-eastern support: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/balcbase11.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"900\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" alt=\"[image of base of north-eastern support post on 15 September]\" \/> The concrete base has been moved a bit, and the wooden post has been further moved in the same direction, so that it's no longer fully on the base.<\/p> <p>My guess is that the problem is of the posts repeatedly being hit by vehicles.  In any case, unless there's some intervention soon, that balcony isn't likely to stand another month.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might recall the balcony whose photo I posted on 14 August. I noticed to-day that in the last month there has been a further decline. Here, showing the bottoms of the two eastern supports, is a detail from a photo taken then: The south-eastern support was the big problem. Here's the base of the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[372,437,84],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-architecture","tag-entropy","tag-hillcrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}