{"id":417,"date":"2008-03-25T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icbie.net\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2008-03-25T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T14:26:08","slug":"an-ounce-of-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/an-ounce-of-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ounce of Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The responsibilities of running an operation like the ICBIE go beyond the ordinary, that&#8217;s for sure.\u00a0  Just as he was planning to use the relative calm of the Easter season to grab a rare day off for a trip to the beach, ICBIE president Pietro Gallina discovered that a big crack had opened at the back of the wall that runs along Rua Julio David, behind the institute.\u00a0  Not only could a large and heavy block have broken away, falling onto the busy sidewalk, but it also threatened a main power line.\u00a0  So instead of basking under the palms, Pietro had to call the electric company and organize a crew of workers to perform the necessary preventative measures, which involved cutting off the electricity, pulling down the compromised hunk of wall, and then repairing the damage.\u00a0  Just the materials cost \u20ac150, including a new pole for the electrical wires.<\/p>\n<p>All of this, and more, in the name of cultural exchange and understanding!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wallwork270.jpg\" title=\"Repairing the Wall\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/wallwork270.jpg\" alt=\"Repairing the Wall\" height=\"164\" width=\"214\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pietroblock273.jpg\" title=\"Pietro at Work\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/pietroblock273.jpg\" alt=\"Pietro at Work\" height=\"164\" width=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/blockdown267.jpg\" title=\"Repairing the Wall\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/blockdown267.jpg\" alt=\"Repairing the Wall\" height=\"267\" width=\"216\" \/><\/a>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/blockdown266.jpg\" title=\"Wall Repairs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/blockdown266.jpg\" alt=\"Wall Repairs\" height=\"268\" width=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/blockdown267.jpg\" title=\"The Block is Down\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The responsibilities of running an operation like the ICBIE go beyond the ordinary, that&#8217;s for sure.\u00a0 Just as he was planning to use the relative calm of the Easter season to grab a rare day off for a trip to the beach, ICBIE president Pietro Gallina discovered that a big crack had opened at the back of the wall that runs along Rua Julio David, behind the institute.\u00a0 Not only could a large and heavy block have broken away, falling onto the busy sidewalk, but it also threatened a main power line.\u00a0 So instead of basking under the palms, Pietro had to call the electric company and organize a crew of workers to perform the necessary preventative measures, which involved cutting off the electricity, pulling down the compromised hunk of wall, and then repairing the damage.\u00a0 Just the materials cost \u20ac150, including a new pole for the electrical wires. All of this, and more, in the name of cultural exchange and understanding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-icbie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}