{"id":542,"date":"2009-08-07T20:09:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T20:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2014-05-20T20:10:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T20:10:48","slug":"158238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/158238\/","title":{"rendered":"158238"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sentradiaries met motorcycle diaries today at the codelco copper mine in chuquicamata. according to lonely planet, &#8220;che guevara visited these great bleak slagheaps on his cross-continent journey, encountering a communist miner who marked a turn in his politics&#8221;. the copper mine is quite huge. the chuquicamata mine (one of three at the site), for instance is 3km x 5km and 1km deep. they process about half a megaton of material every day, with the majority being waste. because everything there is so big, it&#8217;s easy to lose perspective&#8230;.until you see a big pickup truck that is dwarfed by one of the megaton trucks. they say that the trucks drive on the left side of the road (it&#8217;s easier to see the edge of the road that way)&#8230;but it seems difficult (and unlikely) for two big trucks to pass each other on such (relatively) narrow roads. another interesting fact is that they don&#8217;t work when it rains&#8230;.unfortunately for the employees, the last time it rained was over 3 years ago!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-542 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/158238\/codelco1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/codelco1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/158238\/codelco2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/codelco2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sentradiaries met motorcycle diaries today at the codelco copper mine in chuquicamata. according to lonely planet, &#8220;che guevara visited these great bleak slagheaps on his cross-continent journey, encountering a communist miner who marked a turn in his politics&#8221;. the copper mine is quite huge. the chuquicamata mine (one of three at the site), for instance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chile"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}