{"id":938,"date":"2017-09-13T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2017-09-13T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:37:39","slug":"six-year-old-boy-announces-new-windsor-detroit-bridge-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Six-year-old boy announces new Windsor-Detroit bridge project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lego-093759_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-939\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lego-093759_640-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lego-093759_640-252x300.jpg 252w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lego-093759_640.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON &#8211; Jacob Haskins, age six, of Windsor, Ontario announced plans Wednesday morning for a new bridge\u00a0connecting\u00a0Canada and\u00a0the United States\u00a0that he will be building entirely out of Lego-bricks.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve seen in the news recently that the Gordie Howe Bridge project will be held up another two or three years and the Moroun family got their go-ahead to begin construction on a twin-span for the Ambassador Bridge so I thought the time was right for me to announce my intentions of building a bridge connecting Windsor and Detroit entirely of Legos\u201d Jacob said at a hastily called news conference.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve broken ground today and I\u2019ve started the foundation on the Canadian side. I just need about 42 billion more Lego bricks and I\u2019ll be good to go\u201d the enterprising young man from East Windsor told reporters.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m optimistic that we can have it built and open by 2022 before I start high school\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob thinks his project will benefit all the citizens of Canada and the United States except for Billy Simpson who, according to Jacob \u201cSits behind me in class and pokes me when the teacher\u2019s back is turned so Billy Simpson\u00a0will never, ever, ever be allowed to go on my bridge\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Billy Simpson could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON &#8211; Jacob Haskins, age six, of Windsor, Ontario announced plans Wednesday morning for a new bridge\u00a0connecting\u00a0Canada and\u00a0the United States\u00a0that he will be building entirely out of Lego-bricks.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve seen in the news recently that the Gordie Howe Bridge &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=938\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}