{"id":5942,"date":"2010-04-30T07:47:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5942"},"modified":"2010-04-30T07:47:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:47:36","slug":"trees_the_silent_killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/04\/trees_the_silent_killer.html","title":{"rendered":"Trees: The Silent Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And like an invasion of B-movie zombies, they die, lay in wait, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/queens\/2010\/04\/30\/2010-04-30_untitled__2tree30m.html\">strike when you least expect it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Queens tree branch that neighbors had complained was rotten came crashing down on power lines Thursday, sparking a stubborn blaze that destroyed a church, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>The Deeper Life Christian Fellowship Church on 111th St. in Richmond Hill caught fire when the limb collapsed onto the wires and a car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It caused a chain reaction,&#8221; said a neighborhood resident who gave her name only as Adel. &#8220;It kept popping like a firecracker,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was a crackling of electricity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And like an invasion of B-movie zombies, they die, lay in wait, and strike when you least expect it: A Queens tree branch that neighbors had complained was rotten came crashing down on power lines Thursday, sparking a stubborn blaze that destroyed a church, witnesses said. The Deeper Life Christian Fellowship Church on 111th St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,50,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens","category-were_all_gonna_die","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5943,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}