{"id":139469,"date":"2026-10-22T01:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=139469"},"modified":"2026-10-22T01:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:28:30","slug":"lol-the-cost-of-all-these-canals-construction-maintenance-wasted-time-using-them-is-astronomical-you-know-what-we-already-have-thats-worlds-cheaper-and-more-efficient-rail-lines-for-gen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=139469","title":{"rendered":"lol \n\nThe cost of all these canals (construction, maintenance, wasted time using them) is astronomical \n\nYou know what we *already have* that&#8217;s worlds cheaper and more efficient? \n\nRail lines for general cross country freight \n\nAirplanes for &#8220;has to be there as soon as possible&#8221;\n\nTrucks and cars for everything else"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">lol <\/p>\n<p>The cost of all these canals (construction, maintenance, wasted time using them) is astronomical <\/p>\n<p>You know what we *already have* that&#8217;s worlds cheaper and more efficient? <\/p>\n<p>Rail lines for general cross country freight <\/p>\n<p>Airplanes for &#8220;has to be there as soon as possible&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trucks and cars for everything else<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/2113079828203147482\">Oct 22, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>October 21, 2026 at 09:27PM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lol The cost of all these canals (construction, maintenance, wasted time using them) is astronomical You know what we *already have* that&#8217;s worlds cheaper and more efficient? Rail lines for general cross country freight Airplanes for &#8220;has to be there as soon as possible&#8221; Trucks and cars for everything else &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers) Oct &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=139469\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">lol <\/p>\n<p>The cost of all these canals (construction, maintenance, wasted time using them) is astronomical <\/p>\n<p>You know what we *already have* that&#8217;s worlds cheaper and more efficient? <\/p>\n<p>Rail lines for general cross country freight <\/p>\n<p>Airplanes for &#8220;has to be there as soon as possible&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trucks and cars for everything else<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-139469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139470,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139469\/revisions\/139470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139469"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=139469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}