{"id":99457,"date":"2018-05-22T19:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T23:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=99457"},"modified":"2018-05-22T19:04:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T23:04:33","slug":"the-swamp-attacks-the-white-house-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=99457","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Swamp&#8221; Attacks the White House&#8212;Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sinkhole Opens on White House Front Lawn<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GetFile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GetFile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GetFile.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GetFile-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Jim Crowe<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>A sinkhole has opened on the North Lawn of the White House, and it appears to be growing bigger, Voice of America reporter Steve Herman noted in a tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This week I\u2019ve been observing a sinkhole on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WhiteHouse<\/a> North Lawn, just outside the press briefing room, growing larger by the day. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BsFUtxFqpB\">pic.twitter.com\/BsFUtxFqpB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steve Herman (@W7VOA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/W7VOA\/status\/998919472567275520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was noticeably bigger between Sunday and Monday\u2026 it\u2019s more than a foot long right now,&#8221; said Herman,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/1284955\/donald-trumps-white-house-has-a-growing-sinkhole-on-the-north-lawn\/?oRef=outbrain\"><strong>Quartz<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Herman added that a second sinkhole has opened next to the first one, the Quartz report said.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/W7VOA\/status\/998919472567275520\">\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-3\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/W7VOA\/status\/998919472567275520\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-dt-full=\"%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-dt-explicit-timestamp=\"9:32 AM - May 22, 2018\" data-dt-months=\"Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec\" data-dt-am=\"AM\" data-dt-pm=\"PM\" data-dt-now=\"now\" data-dt-s=\"s\" data-dt-m=\"m\" data-dt-h=\"h\" data-dt-second=\"second\" data-dt-seconds=\"seconds\" data-dt-minute=\"minute\" data-dt-minutes=\"minutes\" data-dt-hour=\"hour\" data-dt-hours=\"hours\" data-dt-abbr=\"%{number}%{symbol}\" data-dt-short=\"%{day} %{month}\" data-dt-long=\"%{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"998919472567275520\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<article class=\"MediaCard MediaCard--mediaForward customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 50%\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The sinkhole is near the press briefing room, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of Washington, D.C. are built on a swamp. Geological issues in the city include &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/07\/150728101212.htm\/?oRef=outbrain\"><strong>forebulge collapse<\/strong><\/a>,&#8221; which means the city could sink up to six inches in this century, A University of Vermont study found in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/white-house-sinkhole-front\/2018\/05\/22\/id\/861780\/?oRef=outbrain\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/white-house-sinkhole-front\/2018\/05\/22\/id\/861780\/?oRef=outbrain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinkhole Opens on White House Front Lawn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}