{"id":4599,"date":"2016-06-28T15:53:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/28\/china-keeps-trying-to-prove-its-glass-bridge-is-safe-so-it-drove-a-2-tonne-suv-over-it\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T15:53:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:53:32","slug":"china-keeps-trying-to-prove-its-glass-bridge-is-safe-so-it-drove-a-2-tonne-suv-over-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/28\/china-keeps-trying-to-prove-its-glass-bridge-is-safe-so-it-drove-a-2-tonne-suv-over-it\/","title":{"rendered":"China keeps trying to prove its glass bridge is safe, so it drove a 2-tonne SUV over it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just in case the public wasn’t sufficiently convinced by a journalist smashing the world’s longest and highest glass bridge<\/a>\u00a0with a sledgehammer (and surviving), the owners of the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon bridge in China decided to prove its safety by upping the ante over the weekend.<\/p>\n

In its latest\u00a0media-directed<\/a> “safety test” of the 430-meter bridge, suspended a heart-stopping 300 meters above a gorge, the Zhangjiajie national park’s owners had<\/span>\u00a020 volunteers swing sledgehammers at the glass, making visible cracks in the top layer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Then, a Volvo XC90 SUV carrying 11 people rolled over the cracked panels, Xinhua reported.<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Just in case the public wasn’t sufficiently convinced by a journalist smashing the world’s longest and highest glass bridge\u00a0with a sledgehammer (and surviving), the owners of the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon bridge in China decided to prove its safety by upping … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[777,1123,1112,3543],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-china","tag-glass-bridge","tag-world","tag-zhangjiajie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}