{"id":390,"date":"2012-03-26T11:53:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2017-03-26T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T01:00:25","slug":"the-moon-in-the-conservatory-with-an-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"The moon, in the conservatory, with an iceberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/moon-doom-titanic.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Titanic as ship in a bottle\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0d\/Buddelschiff_Titanic.JPG\/320px-Buddelschiff_Titanic.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image (and model) by Werner Willmann.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 100th anniversary of Titanic\u2019s fateful voyage arrives laden with new photos, new articles and, of course, new theories regarding what caused her sundering. Over the past century, researchers, authors and filmmakers have blamed the incident on everyone from White Star management and Belfast&#8217;s Harland and Wolff shipyard to Captain E. J. Smith and helmsman Robert Hitchins.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, I examine the latest and arguably most novel theory: The moon did it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/moon-doom-titanic.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Did the Moon Doom the Titanic?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 100th anniversary of Titanic\u2019s fateful voyage arrives laden with new photos, new articles and, of course, new theories regarding what caused her sundering. Over the past century, researchers, authors and filmmakers have blamed the incident on everyone from White Star management and Belfast&#8217;s Harland and Wolff shipyard to Captain E. J. Smith and helmsman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The moon, in the conservatory, with an iceberg<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,94,128,50,4,74,3,43],"tags":[287,274,25,288,58,285,289,286],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-engineering","category-film","category-geoscience","category-history","category-physics","category-science","category-travel","tag-iceberg","tag-moon","tag-nature","tag-north-atlantic","tag-planets","tag-titanic","tag-tragedy","tag-white-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}