{"id":1098,"date":"2004-08-23T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/river_traffic\/"},"modified":"2004-08-23T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2004-08-23T15:59:11","slug":"river_traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/river_traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"River Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Knox Bubba posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southknoxbubba.net\/skblog\/archive_2004_08.php#3364\">three articles<\/a> in yesterday&#8217;s <i>Knoxville News Sentinel<\/i> regarding traffic on the Tennessee River.  I find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/kns\/local_news\/article\/0,1406,KNS_347_3128713,00.html\">this blurb<\/a> in the cover story a bit ironic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The type of goods transported into Knoxville varies from the primary products moved along the Tennessee River as a whole.<br \/>\nThe primary No. 1 product for Knoxville is asphalt at about 50 percent of the traffic or 250,000 tons a year. It is followed by salt at 20 percent of the traffic or 100,000 tons. The remainder of the Knoxville traffic is coke and steel.<br \/>\n&#8220;Knoxville can&#8217;t live without its road projects, so we feed those road projects,&#8221; Nelson said, explaining the transportation of asphalt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep.  We need the river so we can continue building more roads!  It&#8217;s a good thing river freight is so much cheaper than road traffic&#8211;makes hauling the asphalt more economical for the road builders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/river_traffic\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to River Traffic\"><p>South Knox Bubba posts on three articles in yesterday&#8217;s Knoxville News Sentinel regarding traffic on the Tennessee River. I find this blurb in the cover story a bit ironic: The type of goods transported into Knoxville varies from the primary products moved along the Tennessee River as a whole. The primary No. 1 product for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}