{"id":13155,"date":"2005-10-16T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/16\/concrete-ships\/"},"modified":"2005-10-16T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T16:13:00","slug":"concrete-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/16\/concrete-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Concrete Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened upon a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/45823\" target=\"_blank\">MetaFilter thread on concrete ships<\/a> last week that led me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concreteships.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Concrete Ships.org<\/a>, a very informative page on the history of such vessels.  Even neater is that I saw one of the more famous of such vessels during my vacation to Cape May, New Jersey last month.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concreteships.org\/ships\/ww1\/atlantus\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>S.S. Atlantus<\/i><\/a> is a fairly famous shipwreck just off the shore of Sunset Beach, New Jersey, just west of Cape May.<\/p>\n<p>Sunset Beach also happens to be the site of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunsetbeachnj.com\/flagceremony.html\" target=\"_blank\">flag-lowering ceremony<\/a> that takes place every evening at sunset.  &ldquo;All of the flags that [are flown at the] mast are veterans&rsquo; casket flags that have been donated by the families,&rdquo; making for quite a solemn and touching ceremony.  Below is one of the pictures of the shipwreck that I took at sunset; click on the picture to see a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44124400928@N01\/53009091\/\" title=\"link to larger photo at flickr\" target=\"_blank\">larger version at flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44124400928@N01\/53009091\/\" title=\"link to larger photo at flickr\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sunset Beach - S.S. Atlantus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/sunsetbeach_atlantus_small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/history\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/military\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">military<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/naval\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">naval<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/photography\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">photography<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112921550503202470?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened upon a MetaFilter thread on concrete ships last week that led me to Concrete Ships.org, a very informative page on the history of such vessels. Even neater is that I saw one of the more famous of such vessels during my vacation to Cape May, New Jersey last month. The S.S. Atlantus is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/16\/concrete-ships\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Concrete Ships&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}