{"id":1914,"date":"2010-08-03T21:25:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T21:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2010-08-03T21:25:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T21:25:29","slug":"washington-post-bp-begins-pumping-mud-into-gulf-oil-well-to-plug-it-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2010\/08\/03\/washington-post-bp-begins-pumping-mud-into-gulf-oil-well-to-plug-it-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: BP begins pumping mud into Gulf oil well to plug it for good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/?wpisrc=nl_natlalert<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post<br \/>\n 4:26 PM (7 minutes ago)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nNews Alert<br \/>\n04:18 PM EDT Tuesday, August 3, 2010<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>BP says its engineers have begun pumping heavy drilling mud into the blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well in hopes of choking it for good.<\/p>\n<p>BP spokesman John Barnes says crews launched the so-called &#8220;static kill&#8221; process Tuesday at 3 p.m. Central time to plug up the well and then possibly seal it with cement.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit washingtonpost.com:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/link.email.washingtonpost.com\/r\/VP6EHT\/2689BV\/SLUJ0Z\/P044AB\/LHQTY\/CM\/t<br \/>\nSpecial thanks to Richard Charter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/?wpisrc=nl_natlalert The Washington Post 4:26 PM (7 minutes ago) &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; News Alert 04:18 PM EDT Tuesday, August 3, 2010 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; BP says its engineers have begun pumping heavy drilling mud into the blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well in hopes of choking it for good. BP spokesman John Barnes says crews launched the so-called &#8220;static &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2010\/08\/03\/washington-post-bp-begins-pumping-mud-into-gulf-oil-well-to-plug-it-for-good\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Washington Post: BP begins pumping mud into Gulf oil well to plug it for good<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}