{"id":2414,"date":"2022-09-12T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2022-09-12T17:16:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T21:16:23","slug":"the-hawks-nest-tunnel-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"The Hawk&#8217;s Nest Tunnel Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawk&#8217;s Nest is in the mountains of West Virginia, not far from Fayetteville.  From there you have a lovely view of the New River as it curves around the mountains before joining with the Gauley River to form the Kanawha River.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the site of one of the worst industrial disasters in not just Appalachian history but in American history.  <\/p>\n<p>Today we tell that story.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PRR457xirTM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to go down below the video on YouTube and click the &#8220;Subscribe&#8221; button, then ding the bell for notifications.  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching!<\/p>\n<p>(Steel furnace stock footage provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videvo.net\/profile\/videvo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Videvo<\/a>, downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videvo.net\/profile\/videvo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">videvo.net<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawk&#8217;s Nest is in the mountains of West Virginia, not far from Fayetteville. From there you have a lovely view of the New River as it curves around the mountains before joining with the Gauley River to form the Kanawha River. It&#8217;s also the site of one of the worst industrial disasters in not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Today we tell the story of the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster. #Appalachianhistory #Hawk'sNestStateParkWestVirginia  #WestVirginia","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disasters","category-the-coalfields","category-the-great-depression"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Hawks-Nest-Workers-Cemetery-3-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TX4A-CW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}