{"id":2405,"date":"2005-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2005\/03\/01\/i-just-sat-there-thinking\/"},"modified":"2005-03-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T00:00:00","slug":"i-just-sat-there-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2005\/03\/01\/i-just-sat-there-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"I JUST SAT THERE THINKING. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mjc-gate__lead-in\"><p>When a reporter asked one of the returning astronauts what his secret thoughts had been immediately before the launch he said: \" I just sat there thinking that this remarkable piece of hardware had 40,000 components, all of them supplied by the lowest bidder.\" Just how many crane operators have such thoughts is hard to say but Nick Elliott talked to a number of specialists to ascertain what components are most likely to fail and how to avoid or cope with the situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"mjc-gate mjc-gate--full mjc-gate--anon\" data-mjc-gate=\"anon\">\n\n    \n    <div class=\"mjc-gate__body\">\n\n        \n                            <h2 class=\"mjc-gate__heading\">Continue reading this article<\/h2>\n            \n                            <p class=\"mjc-gate__text\">Registration is currently closed. Sign in if you already have an account.<\/p>\n            \n        \n                    <p class=\"mjc-gate__actions\">\n                <a class=\"btn btn-primary mjc-gate__button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/login\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.portstrategy.com%2Fcoastlink%2F2005%2F03%2F01%2Fi-just-sat-there-thinking%2F\">\n                    Sign in                <\/a>\n            <\/p>\n        \n        \n    <\/div>\n\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a reporter asked one of the returning astronauts what his secret thoughts had been immediately before the launch he said: &#8221; I just sat there thinking that this remarkable piece of hardware had 40,000 components, all of them supplied by the lowest bidder.&#8221; Just how many crane operators have such thoughts is hard to say but Nick Elliott talked to a number of specialists to ascertain what components are most likely to fail and how to avoid or cope with the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-container-cargo-handling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}