{"id":4880,"date":"2008-04-16T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2008-04-16T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T03:33:00","slug":"trapped-in-an-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/trapped-in-an-elevator\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapped in an Elevator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Paumgarten has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/04\/21\/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all\" title=\"Up and Then Down -- Nick Paumgarten\">a superb story<\/a> in the <i>New Yorker<\/i> about elevators, constructed around the story of one Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours, and whose life fell apart as a result. It&#8217;s stunning&#8212;both White&#8217;s story and Paumgarten&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p>And after you read that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/video\/2008\/04\/21\/080421_elevators\" title=\"Trapped\">here&#8217;s the time-lapse video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only comparable trauma I have been through is when I went to a nearby multiplex and watched <i>Shootout at Lokhandwala<\/i>. I suppose it could be said that I emerged a stronger human being at the end of it.<\/p>\n<p>(Links via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.prathambooks.org\/\" title=\"Gautam John\">Gautam John<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Paumgarten has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/04\/21\/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all\" title=\"Up and Then Down -- Nick Paumgarten\">a superb story<\/a> in the <i>New Yorker<\/i> about elevators, constructed around the story of one Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours, and whose life fell apart as a result. It&#8217;s stunning&#8212;both White&#8217;s story and Paumgarten&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p>And after you read that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/video\/2008\/04\/21\/080421_elevators\" title=\"Trapped\">here&#8217;s the time-lapse video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only comparable trauma I have been through is when I went to a nearby multiplex and watched <i>Shootout at Lokhandwala<\/i>. I suppose it could be said that I emerged a stronger human being at the end of it.<\/p>\n<p>(Links via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.prathambooks.org\/\" title=\"Gautam John\">Gautam John<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trapped in an Elevator - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/trapped-in-an-elevator\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trapped in an Elevator - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nick Paumgarten has a superb story in the New Yorker about elevators, constructed around the story of one Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours, and whose life fell apart as a result. 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