{"id":124688,"date":"2021-07-07T22:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T05:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/fort-lauderdale-accepts-elon-musks-beach-tunnel-proposal"},"modified":"2021-07-07T22:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T05:22:47","slug":"fort-lauderdale-accepts-elon-musks-beach-tunnel-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/fort-lauderdale-accepts-elon-musks-beach-tunnel-proposal","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale accepts Elon Musk\u2019s beach tunnel proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fort-lauderdale-accepts-elon-musks-beach-tunnel-proposal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk is boring his way to the beach in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>Local lawmakers accepted a proposal from Musk\u2019s Boring Co. Tuesday to build an underground transit system that would whisk people from the Florida city\u2019s downtown area to the beach in Teslas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther firms have 45 days to submit competing proposals. This could be a truly innovative way to reduce traffic congestion,\u201d Mayor Dean Trantalis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeanTrantalis\/status\/1412563013383737344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is boring his way to the beach in Fort Lauderdale. Local lawmakers accepted a proposal from Musk\u2019s Boring Co. Tuesday to build an underground transit system that would whisk people from the Florida city\u2019s downtown area to the beach in Teslas. \u201cOther firms have 45 days to submit competing proposals. This could be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}