{"id":2187,"date":"2009-06-07T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T13:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2009-07-10T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T23:32:10","slug":"lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>e lost our faithful companion last Wednesday: Katy the Wunderdog was put down and life got a lot quieter around the house. If she had lasted a couple of weeks, she would have been 18 which is an excellent age for a dog her size. It&#8217;s a kind of surprising how fast it went downhill with her: last year&#8217;s photos of her tell a different story than the dog we knew for the last couple of weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p>The other thing of note was that Air France plane disaster, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8077437.stm\">last Sunday or Monday<\/a>. Flight 447 was lost during a transatlantic flight from Brazil to France. The rescue efforts (or should I say, the search efforts) finally seem to have found the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8087303.stm\">first bodies<\/a> but there&#8217;s no word yet on the black boxes, which may have ended up in the depths of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p> Curious: shouldn&#8217;t these boxes go with floaters for transatlantic flights? I mean, finding out what happened is crucial in these kind of disasters, instead of relying on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/82120\/A-complete-meteorological-analysis-of-the-loss-of-AF447\">best guesses by your local airplane and weather expert<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><strong>Update 1: <\/strong> Christian Science Monitor on <a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/discoveries\/2009\/06\/03\/air-france-tragedy-time-to-require-black-boxes-that-float-they-exist\/\">&#8216;floating&#8217; black boxes<\/a> (06\/03\/09).\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/americas\/07\/02\/air.france.report\/index.html\">Air France plane crashed &#8216;intact&#8217;<\/a> (07\/02\/09).\n<\/p>\n<p><Strong>Update 3:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8145578.stm\">Air France boxes search to wind down<\/a> (07\/10\/09).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lost our faithful companion last Wednesday: Katy the Wunderdog was put down and life got a lot quieter around the house. If she had lasted a couple of weeks, she would have been 18 which is an excellent age &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,301],"tags":[394,395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}