{"id":371,"date":"2006-10-14T23:38:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T04:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2006-10-14T23:38:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T04:38:14","slug":"6-days-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"6 Days and Counting !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/elevator2010logo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>A slow day at the fairgrounds today.\u00a0 It was rainy all day so not much could be done outside.\u00a0 Instead, workers concentrated on getting Climbers Row and other indoor facilities into shape.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/turbocrawlerlogo.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Still no news on the German team&#8217;s TurboCrawler lifter.\u00a0 It appears that we can&#8217;t even find out whether or not their Lifter has been released from Customs or not.\u00a0 So, we don&#8217;t know if it is actually on the last leg of its journey to Las Cruces\u00a0or still stuck in LA Customs.\u00a0 Without knowing all the ins and outs of the situation, its hard to make a definitive judgment on why this snafu occurred, but it certainly doesn&#8217;t reflect well on our country&#8217;s hospitality (or our competence).\u00a0 If the Lifter isn&#8217;t released until Monday, it won&#8217;t make it to Las Cruces until the last possible moment, giving the Germans almost no time to get it in the shape they want for the competition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/usstlogo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>One other note; the USST team called the Elevator2010 crew today and said that they were crossing Wisconsin on the way to Las Cruces.\u00a0 This means that they&#8217;ve made it past Customs at the US &#8211; Canadian border\u00a0and so, presumably, will arrive on time and intact.<\/p>\n<p>More teams are expected to arrive tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slow day at the fairgrounds today.\u00a0 It was rainy all day so not much could be done outside.\u00a0 Instead, workers concentrated on getting Climbers Row and other indoor facilities into shape. Still no news on the German team&#8217;s TurboCrawler lifter.\u00a0 It appears that we can&#8217;t even find out whether or not their Lifter has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}