{"id":282301,"date":"2019-07-15T07:17:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282301"},"modified":"2019-07-15T07:27:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:27:33","slug":"huge-power-outage-that-plunged-manhattan-into-darkness-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/huge-power-outage-that-plunged-manhattan-into-darkness-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge power outage that plunged Manhattan into darkness ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A power outage that gripped New York&#8217;s Manhattan ended Saturday after it plunged Broadway theaters into darkness, brought subways to a halt and flicked off billboards in Times Square.<\/p>\n<p>About 42,000 customers lost electricity in the early evening, according to power utility Con Edison, which didn&#8217;t indicate a cause of the power failure.<\/p>\n<p>The power returned around 10:00 pm (0200 GMT), accompanied by applause that could be heard throughout the formerly darkened streets.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Twitter that the outage was caused by a &#8220;manhole fire,&#8221; but later told CNN it was under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A power outage that gripped New York&#8217;s Manhattan ended Saturday after it plunged Broadway theaters into darkness, brought subways to a halt and flicked off billboards in Times Square. About 42,000 customers lost electricity in the early evening, according to power utility Con Edison, which didn&#8217;t indicate a cause of the power failure. The power returned around 10:00 pm (0200 GMT), accompanied by applause that could be heard throughout the formerly darkened streets. Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Twitter that the outage was caused by a &#8220;manhole fire,&#8221; but later told CNN it was under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}