{"id":333378,"date":"2010-02-17T16:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"1847 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-02-17T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:27:34","slug":"ss-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/333378","title":{"rendered":"SS United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia-county\/philadelphia\">Philadelphia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/inspired-inventions\">Inspired Inventions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the highest sustained top speed of 35 knots, the SS United States is the worlds fastest ocean liner. <\/p>\n<p>Launched in 1952, it&#8217;s maiden voyage set the record for the fastest transatlantic trip by an ocean liner. This honor, known as the Blue Riband, was previously held by the Queen Mary. The ship uses an extremely powerful steam turbine engine and it is hailed as a fireproof ship. The only wood on board is the butcher&#8217;s block and a specially designed, flame resistant grand piano. <\/p>\n<p>SS United States Conservancy is working on plans to buy and restore the ship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/P1010009.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Inspired Inventions With the highest sustained top speed of 35 knots, the SS United States is the worlds fastest ocean liner. Launched in 1952, it&#8217;s maiden voyage set the record for the fastest transatlantic trip by an ocean liner. This honor, known as the Blue Riband, was previously held by the Queen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}