{"id":3584,"date":"2012-09-14T04:55:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T11:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/flash-waterslide\/"},"modified":"2012-09-08T17:02:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T00:02:27","slug":"flash-waterslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/14\/flash-waterslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Waterslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/cleveland.cbslocal.com\/2012\/09\/08\/ohio-teen-travels-quarter-of-a-mile-through-sewer\/\" target=\"_blank\">from CBS Cleveland<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Ohio Teen Travels Quarter Of A Mile Through Sewer After Falling Into Drain\u00a0Pipe<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.water-technology.net\/projects\/halongcitysanitation\/halongcitysanitation5.html\" title=\"this beautiful image of a sewer pipe courtesy of Water-Technology.net\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.water-technology.net\/projects\/halongcitysanitation\/images\/5-sewer-pipe.jpg\" height=\"auto\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 An overflowing creek in a Cleveland suburb sent a 14-year-old boy on the ride of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey LaPorta traveled more than a quarter of a mile Tuesday through multiple storm sewer pipes, at times completely submerged in water, before finding enough breathing room to await rescue. He was eventually pulled out of the sewer in less than an hour, with only scrapes and bruises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of like a waterslide,\u201d Jeffrey said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press. \u201cBut like the waterslide was like very, very steep and went about 20 miles an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[An Official] said the boy traveled about 1,500 feet from where he initially started.<\/p>\n<p>The distance came as a shock to Jeffrey. \u201cI thought I traveled only 20 feet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/cleveland.cbslocal.com\/2012\/09\/08\/ohio-teen-travels-quarter-of-a-mile-through-sewer\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at CBS Cleveland<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CBS Cleveland Ohio Teen Travels Quarter Of A Mile Through Sewer After Falling Into Drain\u00a0Pipe COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)\u00a0\u2014 An overflowing creek in a Cleveland suburb sent a 14-year-old boy on the ride of his life. Jeffrey LaPorta traveled more than a quarter of a mile Tuesday through multiple storm sewer pipes, at times completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}