{"id":76901,"date":"2018-03-14T02:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T09:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/asteroids-wwiii-n-korea-military-bunkers-transformed-into-survivalist-homes-in-s-dakota-video"},"modified":"2018-03-14T02:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T09:22:42","slug":"asteroids-wwiii-n-korea-military-bunkers-transformed-into-survivalist-homes-in-s-dakota-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/asteroids-wwiii-n-korea-military-bunkers-transformed-into-survivalist-homes-in-s-dakota-video","title":{"rendered":"Asteroids! WWIII! N. Korea! Military bunkers transformed into survivalist homes in S. Dakota (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oxjxxvZJY1A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Describing the bunker community as \u201clarge\u201d is perhaps an understatement. \u201c\u2026This base is 18 square miles (47 square kilometers), about three quarters the size of Manhattan,\u201d Vicino told RT\u2019s Ruptly agency. He says the community has 575 bunkers and will be able to hold between 6,000 and 10,000 residents.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The motto \u201calways be prepared\u201d is wise advice, but one man is taking the mantra to the max. He\u2019s got former military bunkers spanning a space that is three-quarters the size of Manhattan, and is selling them to survivalists.<\/p>\n<p>Survivalists and so-called <em>\u201cpreppers\u201d<\/em> are often the brunt of jokes, with insults ranging from <em>\u201cparanoid\u201d<\/em> to <em>\u201cweird\u201d<\/em> and everything in between. But Robert Vicino couldn\u2019t disagree more. He runs a company which is currently focused on transforming military bunkers into doomsday shelters.<\/p>\n<p>The shelters are in Middle of Nowhere, USA, otherwise known as Edgemont, South Dakota. It\u2019s barely on the map, but it\u2019s about to host the <em>\u201clargest survival community on the planet.\u201d<\/em> That\u2019s big news for a town with a population of just 774 people.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/421059-military-bunkers-doomsday-survivalists\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/421059-military-bunkers-doomsday-survivalists\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Describing the bunker community as \u201clarge\u201d is perhaps an understatement. \u201c\u2026This base is 18 square miles (47 square kilometers), about three quarters the size of Manhattan,\u201d Vicino told RT\u2019s Ruptly agency. He says the community has 575 bunkers and will be able to hold between 6,000 and 10,000 residents. The motto \u201calways be prepared\u201d is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-habitats","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76901","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}