{"id":3578,"date":"2009-10-11T11:02:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T11:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2009-10-11T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T11:02:39","slug":"loma_prieta_plu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3578","title":{"rendered":"Loma Prieta Plus 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2009\/10\/11\/MNMO1A2K4K.DTL\">Carl Nolte:<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>An earthquake that began beneath an obscure mountain in Santa Cruz County called Loma Prieta struck terror into Northern California 20 years ago this week on a beautiful fall afternoon, just as a World Series game was about to begin in San Francisco.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe quake lasted only 15 seconds, but it killed 67 people, smashed downtown Santa Cruz, wrecked San Francisco&#8217;s Marina district, broke the Bay Bridge &#8211; and changed much of the Bay Area.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nLoma Prieta was one of those watershed events; in some ways, the disaster was a blessing in disguise. Out of it came a brand new San Francisco waterfront, the revival of a rundown neighborhood in Hayes Valley, major upgrades of classic buildings in downtown Oakland, and new laws on unreinforced old buildings. One of these years, a new eastern half of the Bay Bridge will open.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&amp;search=Loma+Prieta\">notes and links<\/a> on Loma Prieta, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000904.php\">my recollection(s)<\/a> and that of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000933.php\">Brian Zimdars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2009\/10\/11\/MNMO1A2K4K.DTL\">Carl Nolte:<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>An earthquake that began beneath an obscure mountain in Santa Cruz County called Loma Prieta struck terror into Northern California 20 years ago this week on a beautiful fall afternoon, just as a World Series game was about to begin in San Francisco.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe quake lasted only 15 seconds, but it killed 67 people, smashed downtown Santa Cruz, wrecked San Francisco&#8217;s Marina district, broke the Bay Bridge &#8211; and changed much of the Bay Area.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nLoma Prieta was one of those watershed events; in some ways, the disaster was a blessing in disguise. Out of it came a brand new San Francisco waterfront, the revival of a rundown neighborhood in Hayes Valley, major upgrades of classic buildings in downtown Oakland, and new laws on unreinforced old buildings. One of these years, a new eastern half of the Bay Bridge will open.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&amp;search=Loma+Prieta\">notes and links<\/a> on Loma Prieta, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000904.php\">my recollection(s)<\/a> and that of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000933.php\">Brian Zimdars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,41,33,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}