{"id":8990,"date":"2017-03-08T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/statue-of-liberty-lights-go-out-after-power-cut\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T11:08:08","slug":"statue-of-liberty-lights-go-out-after-power-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/statue-of-liberty-lights-go-out-after-power-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Liberty lights go out after power cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Silhouette of the Statue of Liberty - 8 March 2017\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/9058\/production\/_95025963_mediaitem95025962.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AP<figcaption>Image caption                                      The lights illuminating the statue came on a few hours later                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">The Statue of Liberty was plunged into darkness for a few hours after an unexpected power cut late on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The lights illuminating the statue in New York City shut off in what the National Parks Service said was an &quot;unplanned outage&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>There was online speculation that the move was deliberate, to show solidarity with the Day Without A Woman inequality protests on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>But the parks service said it was probably down to construction work.<\/p>\n<p>The last rebuilding work after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 is being completed nearby. The statue was shut for a month after damage it sustained during the hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>The lights eventually came back on just before midnight local time (05:00 GMT on Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-39202724 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright APImage caption The lights illuminating the statue came on a few hours later The Statue of Liberty was plunged into darkness for a few hours after an unexpected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}