
{"id":17119,"date":"2011-03-31T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=17119"},"modified":"2011-03-31T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T17:00:15","slug":"the-biggest-pothole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/03\/31\/the-biggest-pothole\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest &#8220;Pothole&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/03\/31\/the-biggest-pothole\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PotholeAprilFools.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PotholeAprilFools.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PotholeAprilFools-113x89.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PotholeAprilFools-142x113.jpg 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOK, so I got beat. Soundly too. When I ran a photo earlier this spring of a gi-normous pothole (dubbed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jaws\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) out at Cole Park Plaza, I challenged Citizen readers to find a local pothole larger than my 4-by-2 beast \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so large that it appeared able to swallow an Austin Mini in a single gulp. And respond you did! Intrepid pothole sleuth Ed Timberlake wins hands-down with this biggie: 1,280 feet in diameter and 320 feet deep.  Oh, and the location? A U.S. Dept. of Energy testing site out in the Nevada desert. Along with his entry, Timberlake asked rhetorically, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How local is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclocal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (The 1kW guy has been grappling with that Rubik\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cube for his entire career.) Be that as it may, congrats, Ed, and Happy April Fools\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Day!   <\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I got beat. Soundly too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17121,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions\/17121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}