{"id":1831,"date":"2001-12-11T20:55:22","date_gmt":"2001-12-11T19:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2001-12-11T20:55:22","modified_gmt":"2001-12-11T19:55:22","slug":"this-looks-interesting-but-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2001\/12\/11\/this-looks-interesting-but-what\/","title":{"rendered":"This looks interesting, but what"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/sci\/tech\/newsid_1703000\/1703904.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"new high speed cargo ship in development, with passenger versions to follow\">This<\/a> looks interesting, but what about <a href=\"http:\/\/aquaglide.ru\/main.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"ah zeez duckhunterz, zey are ze craziest peepulz!\">ekranoplans<\/a>? Have a look at the KM (&quot;Caspian Sea Monster&quot;) and also the MPE-400, which, with a displacement of 470 tonnes, is capable of carrying 460 passengers (about the same as the latest Boeing 747s) at 500 km\/h (around 300 miles per hour) in a sea swell of up to 3 metres (nearly 10 feet) at an altitude of around 5 metres (15 feet or so) for up to 6000 kilometres (and very fuel efficient with it). And if the engine conks out? no worry! just float like a boat! I want one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks interesting, but what about ekranoplans? Have a look at the KM (&quot;Caspian Sea Monster&quot;) and also the MPE-400, which, with a displacement of 470 tonnes, is capable of carrying 460 passengers (about the same as the latest Boeing 747s) at 500 km\/h (around 300 miles per hour) in a sea swell of up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}