{"id":8165,"date":"2010-01-25T06:52:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T11:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8165"},"modified":"2010-07-07T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:06:11","slug":"bergs-third-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8165","title":{"rendered":"Berg’s Third Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 The Experts<\/p>\n

From: Mitch Berg, Keen Observer<\/p>\n

Re: Stop<\/p>\n

Dear experts of the world,<\/p>\n

Every single time there’s a major disaster, you solemnly intone that after three days, you’re not going to recover any survivers trapped beneath any rubble.<\/p>\n

And every single time, you are wrong:<\/a><\/p>\n

French rescue workers pulled a 24-year-old man alive from the rubble of a hotel in Haiti on Saturday, 11 days after an earthquake devastated much of the country.Wismond Jean-Pierre, who had no visible injuries but was severely dehydrated, was immediately loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n

Lt. Col. Christophe Renou, a rescuer with the French team, called the three-hour effort “a miracle” as he was briefly overcome with emotion. Other members of the team — assisted by American and Greek workers — were seen weeping with joy following the rescue.<\/p>\n

“This is God,” Frank Louvier, the chief of the French rescue team, said as he pointed to the sky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Your lesson is clear, experts; shut up and dig.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 The Experts From: Mitch Berg, Keen Observer Re: Stop Dear experts of the world, Every single time there’s a major disaster, you solemnly intone that after three days, you’re not going to recover any survivers trapped beneath any rubble. And every single time, you are wrong: French rescue workers pulled a 24-year-old man alive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe-and-everything","category-geekery","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11886,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions\/11886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}