{"id":2000,"date":"2008-12-05T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T15:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2008-12-05T11:56:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T16:56:58","slug":"picture-of-the-day-dec-5-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=2000","title":{"rendered":"Picture of the Day &#8211; Dec. 5, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mis-aligned carfloat ain&#8217;t floatin&#8217;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/btsunkencarfloat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2001\" title=\"Sinking carfloat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/btsunkencarfloat-500x308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/btsunkencarfloat-500x308.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/btsunkencarfloat-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/btsunkencarfloat.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oops.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there was a mis-match between the float bridge and the float.\u00a0 April 21, 1961, Bush Terminal in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>The man shown here would have been drawing the float tight to the float bridge via ropes secured to hooks on the deck of the float.\u00a0 The large ship like wheels over his shoulder were used to draw in the ropes.\u00a0 At the extreme left of the image, highlighted by sunshine, is a lever used to nudge the rails slightly left or right to align with the rails on the floats.\u00a0 It was a ratchet type mechanizm.<\/p>\n<p>He won&#8217;t be needing any of these items this day.<\/p>\n<p>-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mis-aligned carfloat ain&#8217;t floatin&#8217; Oops. Apparently there was a mis-match between the float bridge and the float.\u00a0 April 21, 1961, Bush Terminal in Brooklyn. The man shown here would have been drawing the float tight to the float bridge via ropes secured to hooks on the deck of the float.\u00a0 The large ship like wheels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}