{"id":5933,"date":"2013-11-14T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T15:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=5933"},"modified":"2018-07-12T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T15:50:11","slug":"nature-can-be-spooky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=5933","title":{"rendered":"Nature can be spooky&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-648\" alt=\"video\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/video.png\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/>If you see 20m tall trees vanishing then you make yourself think about<br \/>\nwhat made them vanish. In this video, some boaters are just filming a<br \/>\ntree group sinking into a giant sinkhole in Assumption Perish, Louisiana.<br \/>\nThe sinkhole is the result of a hidden gas and oil reservoir below the lake.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The danger that comes from such hidden sinkholes has already hit Louisiana in the 80&#8217;s when a salt mine below a big lake got punctured during drilling operations. The sinkhole that opened afterwards swallowed the lake and homes of 400 people then.<\/p>\n<p>It is said, that Lake Erie is also endangered by such a sinkhole as there are vast salt mines below it.<\/p>\n<p>To imagine what power is behind such sinkholes, see this video:<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5933-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sinkhole-in-Louisiana-swallows-tree-group.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sinkhole-in-Louisiana-swallows-tree-group.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sinkhole-in-Louisiana-swallows-tree-group.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you see 20m tall trees vanishing then you make yourself think about what made them vanish. In this video, some boaters are just filming a tree group sinking into a giant sinkhole in Assumption Perish, Louisiana. The sinkhole is the result of a hidden gas and oil reservoir below the lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,434,150],"tags":[2459,2753,2752,2751,2754,36],"class_list":["post-5933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-nature-2","category-video","tag-gas","tag-louisiana","tag-oil","tag-sinkhole","tag-tree-group","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}