{"id":20033,"date":"2008-11-28T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/11\/28\/the-ballard-locks-will-be-empty-this-week\/"},"modified":"2008-11-28T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T10:00:01","slug":"the-ballard-locks-will-be-empty-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081128-01\/?p=20033","title":{"rendered":"The Ballard Locks will be empty this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nws.usace.army.mil\/PublicMenu\/Menu.cfm?sitename=lwsc&amp;pagename=mainpage\"> Hiram M. Chittenden Locks<\/a> (more commonly known as the <i>Ballard Locks<\/i>) are a common attraction in Seattle. But if you pay a visit for the next week, you&#8217;ll find that the large set of locks will be empty. And not just empty of boats. Empty of water.<\/p>\n<p> The chamber has been emptied of water for annual maintenance, and if you stop by, you can take pictures of a big hole in the ground. <\/p>\n<p> According to <i>The Seattle Times<\/i>, items found upon draining the chamber include <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2008441899_ballardlocks27.html\"> cell phones, a two-way radio, a boot, beer cans, and prescription glasses<\/a>. Nothing too exciting, I have to admit. Now, if they had found a bicycle&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks (more commonly known as the Ballard Locks) are a common attraction in Seattle. But if you pay a visit for the next week, you&#8217;ll find that the large set of locks will be empty. And not just empty of boats. Empty of water. The chamber has been emptied of water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-20033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks (more commonly known as the Ballard Locks) are a common attraction in Seattle. But if you pay a visit for the next week, you&#8217;ll find that the large set of locks will be empty. And not just empty of boats. Empty of water. The chamber has been emptied of water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}