{"id":13962,"date":"2015-11-10T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=13962"},"modified":"2015-11-09T19:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T01:21:33","slug":"historical-note-suitable-for-use-in-schools-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=13962","title":{"rendered":"Historical note, suitable for use in schools."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>40 years ago today, 29 sailors died when their freighter sank during a storm on Lake Superior.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald#Final_voyage_and_wreck\" target=\"_blank\">By late in the afternoon of November 10, sustained winds of over 50 knots (93 km\/h; 58 mph) were recorded by ships and observation points across eastern Lake Superior. [Arthur M.] Anderson logged sustained winds as high as 58 knots (107 km\/h; 67 mph) at 4:52 p.m., while waves increased to as high as 25 feet (7.6 m) by 6:00 p.m. Anderson was also struck by 70-to-75-knot (130 to 139 km\/h; 81 to 86 mph) gusts and rogue waves as high as 35 feet (11 m).<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I refer, of course, to the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssedmundfitzgerald.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald Online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.mlive.com\/tag\/edmund-fitzgerald\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coverage from MLive.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marinerschurchofdetroit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mariners\u2019 Church of Detroit.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 years ago today, 29 sailors died when their freighter sank during a storm on Lake Superior. By late in the afternoon of November 10, sustained winds of over 50 knots (93 km\/h; 58 mph) were recorded by ships and observation points across eastern Lake Superior. [Arthur M.] Anderson logged sustained winds as high as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,14,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats","category-clippings","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13963,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962\/revisions\/13963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}