{"id":4849,"date":"2010-10-15T21:18:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T02:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2010-10-15T21:19:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T02:19:34","slug":"swiss-complete-worlds-longest-rail-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/10\/15\/swiss-complete-worlds-longest-rail-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Complete World&#8217;s Longest Rail Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reuters article has it correctly with the necessary qualifier, <a title=\"Reuters Article\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/europe\/10\/15\/switzerland.rail.tunnel.gotthard\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Swiss Complete World&#8217;s Longest Rail Tunnel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They fail to mention the 4 other tunnels that are quite a bit longer than the Swiss tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe Wikipedia, see their article, <a title=\"Wikipedia list of longest tunnels\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_longest_tunnels_in_the_world\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>List of longest tunnels in  the world<\/strong><\/a>. The longest one is 85 miles compared to the puny Swiss tunnel of only 35.5 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you go by volume, perhaps the Swiss tunnel does have some bragging rights.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know the numbers for this measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reuters article has it correctly with the necessary qualifier, Swiss Complete World&#8217;s Longest Rail Tunnel. They fail to mention the 4 other tunnels that are quite a bit longer than the Swiss tunnel. If you believe Wikipedia, see their article, List of longest tunnels in the world. The longest one is 85 miles compared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4852,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions\/4852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}