{"id":177967,"date":"2019-04-15T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/15\/this-is-heartbreaking\/"},"modified":"2019-04-15T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T23:19:00","slug":"this-is-heartbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/15\/this-is-heartbreaking\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Heartbreaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vl9BvEeTFco\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>The spire falls at about 15s<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wUpdrRR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wUpdrRR.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/7murwmE.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/7murwmE.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/A8EJYTg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/A8EJYTg.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p>There has been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/15\/notre-dame-fire-paris-france-cathedral\">at a massive fire at the Notre Dame de Paris <\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A fire that devastated Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris was brought under control by firefighters in the early hours of Tuesday morning, though officials warned there were still residual fires to put out.<\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Thousands of Parisians watched in horror from behind police cordons as a ferocious blaze devastated Notre Dame Cathedral on Monday night, destroying its spire and a large part of the roof.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">An investigation has been opened by the prosecutor\u2019s office, but police said it began accidentally and may be linked to building work at the cathedral. The 850-year-old gothic masterpiece had been undergoing restoration work.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The French president, Emmanuel Macron, attended the scene and later gave a speech in which he vowed that the cathedral would be rebuilt, as fire crews said the landmark\u2019s rectangular bell towers and structure of the building had been saved.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how much has been lost, but given that the structure, the part that isn&#8217;t wood, is limestone and old mortar, which is very susceptible to fire damage.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what has been lost, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that when a final inventory is made there will be some very sad architects, artists, and historians.<\/p>\n<p>In bizarrely related news, <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/middleeast\/201904161074167005-Blaze-Erupts-Jerusalems-Historic-al-Aqsa-Mosque\/\">there has been a (relatively minor) fire at the al Aqsa mosque<\/a> in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Notre Dame fire, the source of this one is currently suspicious, having occurred during a 15 minute change-over of local security:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A fire broke out in al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the third-holiest site in Islam, on Monday. The blaze didn\u2019t cause significant damage, but it did endanger a part of the worship site that\u2019s over 2,000 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u200bThe fire broke out in the guard room outside the al-Marwani Prayer Room Monday evening, according to a statement by the mosque&#8217;s Islamic Waqf (Endowments) Department. According to The New Arab, a guard reported a short gap in guard rotations between 7:15 and 7:30 p.m. local time.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spire falls at about 15s There has been a at a massive fire at the Notre Dame de Paris : A fire that devastated Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris was brought under control by firefighters in the early hours of Tuesday morning, though officials warned there were still residual fires to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[482,505,371,378,380],"class_list":["post-177967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-disaster","tag-europe","tag-middle-east","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}