{"id":33703,"date":"2005-10-19T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/10\/19\/follow-up-portsmouth-spinnaker-tower-now-open-but-maybe-you-should-take-the-stairs\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T10:00:10","slug":"follow-up-portsmouth-spinnaker-tower-now-open-but-maybe-you-should-take-the-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051019-10\/?p=33703","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up: Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower now open, but maybe you should take the stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Portsmouth&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/04\/25\/411743.aspx\"> ever-delayed Millennium Tower<\/a> (since renamed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinnakertower.co.uk\/\"> Spinnaker Tower<\/a>) has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/hampshire\/4326932.stm\"> finally been completed<\/a>, five years late and &pound;11 million over budget. But even opening day couldn&#8217;t escape without its own glitches, for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/hampshire\/4351452.stm\"> the project manager was trapped in a glass-walled lift for over an hour<\/a>, requiring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?abseil\"> abseiling<\/a> engineers to come and rescue him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portsmouth&#8217;s ever-delayed Millennium Tower (since renamed Spinnaker Tower) has finally been completed, five years late and &pound;11 million over budget. But even opening day couldn&#8217;t escape without its own glitches, for the project manager was trapped in a glass-walled lift for over an hour, requiring abseiling engineers to come and rescue him.<\/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-33703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Portsmouth&#8217;s ever-delayed Millennium Tower (since renamed Spinnaker Tower) has finally been completed, five years late and &pound;11 million over budget. But even opening day couldn&#8217;t escape without its own glitches, for the project manager was trapped in a glass-walled lift for over an hour, requiring abseiling engineers to come and rescue him.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33703","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=33703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33703\/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=33703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}