{"id":282519,"date":"2019-07-16T06:36:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T06:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282519"},"modified":"2019-07-16T06:46:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T06:46:02","slug":"when-power-outage-hit-new-york-exactly-42-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/when-power-outage-hit-new-york-exactly-42-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"When power outage hit New York exactly 42 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday at 6.47pm, parts of Midtown Manhattan and the West Side went dark.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than three hours later, Con Edison announced that power was being restored.<\/p>\n<p>On a steamy July night in 1977, exactly 42 years ago, the same thing happened: New York City plunged into darkness, but that time the city was left without power for 25 hours.<\/p>\n<p>It became a defining event. Looting and arson spread through the streets, resulting in 3,800 arrests and millions of dollars worth of damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday at 6.47pm, parts of Midtown Manhattan and the West Side went dark. A little more than three hours later, Con Edison announced that power was being restored. On a steamy July night in 1977, exactly 42 years ago, the same thing happened: New York City plunged into darkness, but that time the city was left without power for 25 hours. It became a defining event. Looting and arson spread through the streets, resulting in 3,800 arrests and millions of dollars worth of damage.<\/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":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282519","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=282519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}