{"id":517476,"date":"2010-04-06T04:30:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T08:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=77036"},"modified":"2010-04-06T04:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T08:30:38","slug":"a-truly-terrible-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/517476","title":{"rendered":"A truly terrible event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_77037\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/04\/capt.photo_1270538489832-4-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/04\/capt.photo_1270538489832-4-0-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"capt.photo_1270538489832-4-0\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-77037\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AFP\/Getty Images\/Matt Sullivan)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Overnight the mine disaster in West Virginia has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100406\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_mine_explosion;_ylt=AkSeOFCJTTCAEF0AEHBjbvNs.aF4;_ylu=X3oDMTM2NWp0dTFxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNDA2L3VzX21pbmVfZXhwbG9zaW9uBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3JpZXMEc2xrAzI1ZGVhZGlud3ZhbQ--\">become even worse.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Rescue teams planned to search again for four workers missing in a coal mine where a massive explosion killed 25 in the worst U.S. mining disaster in more than two decades, though officials said Tuesday that the chances were slim that the miners survived.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All the deaths were tragic, of course, and poignant:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Benny R. Willingham, 62, who was five weeks away from retiring, was among those who perished, said his sister-in-law Sheila Prillaman.<\/p>\n<p>He had mined for 30 years, the last 17 with Massey, and planned to take his wife on a cruise to the Virgin Islands next month, she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And not surprisingly:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Though the cause of the blast was not known, the operation run by Massey subsidiary Performance Coal Co. has a history of violations for not properly ventilating highly combustible methane gas, safety officials said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=77036&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_77036\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AFP\/Getty Images\/Matt Sullivan) Overnight the mine disaster in West Virginia has become even worse. Rescue teams planned to search again for four workers missing in a coal mine where a massive explosion killed 25 in the worst U.S. mining disaster in more than two decades, though officials said Tuesday that the chances were slim that [&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-517476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517476","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=517476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}