{"id":197260,"date":"2024-10-08T21:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T02:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/if-helene-causes-a-chip-shortage-itll-be-different-than-covid"},"modified":"2024-10-08T21:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T02:23:15","slug":"if-helene-causes-a-chip-shortage-itll-be-different-than-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/if-helene-causes-a-chip-shortage-itll-be-different-than-covid","title":{"rendered":"If Helene causes a chip shortage, it\u2019ll be different than COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-helene-causes-a-chip-shortage-itll-be-different-than-covid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Helene shut down the Spruce Pine mines that produce ultra-pure quartz, and some fear that could cause shortages and higher prices on things we buy.<\/p>\n<p>So, how likely is that to happen?<\/p>\n<p>The good news is Sibelco, Spruce Pine\u2019s largest quartz mine, says its employees and contractors are all safe and accounted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helene shut down the Spruce Pine mines that produce ultra-pure quartz, and some fear that could cause shortages and higher prices on things we buy. So, how likely is that to happen? The good news is Sibelco, Spruce Pine\u2019s largest quartz mine, says its employees and contractors are all safe and accounted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197260","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=197260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}