{"id":119614,"date":"2026-11-10T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119614"},"modified":"2026-11-10T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:44:09","slug":"119614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119614","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>51 years ago the iron ore hauler <em>Edmund Fitzgerald <\/em>foundered and sank in Lake Superior, taking the lives of her crew of 29 along with her.<br \/>\nTheir loss was not in vain for ever since she sank, no ships and crew have been lost due to storms. This is due to a change in procedures where no ship risks going out into storms.<\/p>\n<p>A year later Gordon Lightfoot published this song about it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald&quot; - Gordon Lightfoot (HD w\/ Lyrics)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9vST6hVRj2A?list=RD9vST6hVRj2A\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>51 years ago the iron ore hauler Edmund Fitzgerald foundered and sank in Lake Superior, taking the lives of her crew of 29 along with her. Their loss was not in vain for ever since she sank, no ships and crew have been lost due to storms. This is due to a change in procedures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119614\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119615,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119614\/revisions\/119615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}