{"id":1121,"date":"2018-01-17T14:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T06:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2018-01-17T14:20:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T06:20:29","slug":"hawaii-missile-alert-how-one-employee-pushed-the-wrong-button-and-caused-a-wave-of-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/hawaii-missile-alert-how-one-employee-pushed-the-wrong-button-and-caused-a-wave-of-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii missile alert: How one employee \u2018pushed the wrong button\u2019 and caused a wave of panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever thought it&#8217;s a good idea to put 2 vastly different scenarios next to each other with similar looking text.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Around 8:05 a.m., the Hawaii emergency employee initiated the internal test, according to a timeline released by the state. From a drop-down menu on a computer program, he saw two options: \u201cTest missile alert\u201d and \u201cMissile alert.\u201d He was supposed to choose the former; as much of the world now knows, he chose the latter, an initiation of a real-life missile alert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2018\/01\/14\/hawaii-missile-alert-how-one-employee-pushed-the-wrong-button-and-caused-a-wave-of-panic\/\">Hawaii missile alert: How one employee \u2018pushed the wrong button\u2019 and caused a wave of panic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever thought it&#8217;s a good idea to put 2 vastly different scenarios next to each other with similar looking text. Around 8:05 a.m., the Hawaii emergency employee initiated the internal test, according to a timeline released by the state. From a drop-down menu on a computer program, he saw two options: \u201cTest missile alert\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}