{"id":321,"date":"2003-12-15T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/gibunnel_plans_underway\/"},"modified":"2003-12-15T01:00:58","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T06:00:58","slug":"gibunnel_plans_underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/gibunnel_plans_underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Gibunnel Plans Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so that doesn&#8217;t work quite as well as Chunnel.  But planning is in the works for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/spain\/article\/0,2763,1107136,00.html\">another big dig<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plans for a rail tunnel between Africa and Europe have taken a step forward with the agreement by Spain and Morocco on a programme of engineering tests. Machines could be digging under the Strait of Gibraltar in five years.<br \/>\nThe Spanish transport ministry said \ufffd27m (\ufffd19m) would be invested over the next three years in a geological survey of the rocks between Punta Paloma, on the south-western coast of Spain near Tarifa, and Punta Malabata, near the Moroccan city of Tangier.<br \/>\nA decision whether to start digging will be made in 2008.<br \/>\nThe tunnel would be 24 miles long, of which 17 miles would lie under the fast-moving waters of the strait.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The world continues to grow smaller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/gibunnel_plans_underway\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Gibunnel Plans Underway\"><p>Okay, so that doesn&#8217;t work quite as well as Chunnel. But planning is in the works for another big dig: Plans for a rail tunnel between Africa and Europe have taken a step forward with the agreement by Spain and Morocco on a programme of engineering tests. Machines could be digging under the Strait of [&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-321","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\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}