{"id":677342,"date":"2010-02-25T02:12:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T07:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidicke.com\/headlines\/30906-why-american-business-fails"},"modified":"2010-02-25T02:12:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T07:12:47","slug":"why-american-business-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/677342","title":{"rendered":"Why American Business Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidicke.com\/images\/stories\/Feb2010\/image0012044.jpg?resize=583%2C405\" border=\"0\" width=\"583\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Good news: It was a normal day in Sharon Springs , KS, when a Union Pacific crew boarded a loaded coal train for the long trek to Salina .\u00a0The Bad news: Just a few miles into the trip a wheel bearing became overheated and melted, letting a metal support drop down and grind on the rail, creating white hot molten metal droppings spewing down to the rail. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The Good news: A very alert crew noticed smoke about halfway back in the train and immediately stopped the train in compliance with the rules. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The Bad news: The train stopped with the hot wheel over a wooden bridge with creosote ties and trusses. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The crew tried to explain to higher-ups but were instructed not to move the train!\u00a0They were instructed &#8220;The Rules&#8221; prohibit moving the train when a part is defective!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rense.com\/general89\/rules.htm\" >See More: Why American Business Fails<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Good news: It was a normal day in Sharon Springs , KS, when a Union Pacific crew boarded a loaded coal train for the long trek to Salina .\u00a0The Bad news: Just a few miles into the trip a wheel bearing became overheated and melted, letting a metal support drop down and grind on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QcS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}