{"id":37343,"date":"2014-08-22T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smart-union.dev\/news\/engineer-railway-company-talk-as-lac-megantic-burns\/"},"modified":"2014-08-22T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:05:57","slug":"engineer-railway-company-talk-as-lac-megantic-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/engineer-railway-company-talk-as-lac-megantic-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineer, railway company talk as Lac-M\u00e9gantic burns","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following conversations took place on July 5 and 6, 2013, on the night of the devastating derailment in Lac-M\u00e9gantic. 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