{"id":3533,"date":"2021-03-29T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:19:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:19:03","slug":"the-grounding-of-the-ever-given","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/the-grounding-of-the-ever-given\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grounding of the Ever Given"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ever_Given\">Ever Given<\/a> was a whale of steel<br>A skyscraper from bow to keel<br>Chasing ports from deal to deal<br>She plied the ocean slow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bound for Rotterdam one day<br>She entered Suez straightaway<br>The crossing should be child\u2019s play<br>But the Devil\u2019s wind did blow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>High-o and round we go<br>The Suez shuttered and too damn slow<br>Heave-ho with a tiny backhoe<br>We\u2019ll set that lady free<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In desert deep a dust storm grew<br>Across the ship lanes raging blew<br>The Ever Given chugging through<br>Could see not where to go<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mighty gust which whipped and burned<br>Hard to starboard made her turn<br>The Given\u2019s prow sank in the berm<br>Her stern spun round in tow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>High-o and round we go<br>The Suez shuttered and too damn slow<br>Heave-ho with a tiny backhoe<br>We\u2019ll set that lady free<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fat with toys and oil and corn<br>Canal she\u2019s blocked so round the Horn<br>Weak supply chains choked and torn<br>With two more weeks to go<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>High-o and round we go<br>The Suez shuttered and too damn slow<br>Heave-ho with a tiny backhoe<br>We\u2019ll set that lady free<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ever Given was a whale of steelA skyscraper from bow to keelChasing ports from deal to dealShe plied the ocean slow Bound for Rotterdam one dayShe entered Suez straightawayThe crossing should be child\u2019s playBut the Devil\u2019s wind did blow High-o and round we goThe Suez shuttered and too damn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abrupt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}