{"id":710,"date":"2010-01-16T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T19:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2010-01-16T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T19:12:21","slug":"save-the-whalesthe-ady-gil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Save the Whales:the Ady Gil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/KVNCSY-Temps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-714\" title=\"KVNCSY Temps\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/KVNCSY-Temps-440x293.jpg\" alt=\"KVNCSY Temps\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/KVNCSY-Temps-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/KVNCSY-Temps-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/KVNCSY-Temps.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sea-shepherd2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-711\" title=\"sea-shepherd2\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sea-shepherd2-440x321.jpg\" alt=\"sea-shepherd2\" width=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sea-shepherd2-440x321.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sea-shepherd2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Japan kills about 1,200 whales a year in Antarctica under what it says is a scientific program allowed by the International Whaling Commission, despite a moratorium on commercial whaling. Critics say the program is a front for illegal whaling, and Sea Shepherd sends ships to Antarctica each season to try to stop the hunt.&#8221; \u2014From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121795623\">NPR.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In an unprovoked attack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-dXCR9LX-Kc\">captured on film<\/a>, the Japanese security ship\u00a0<em>Shonan Maru No. 2<\/em> deliberately rammed and caused catastrophic damage to the Sea Shepherd trimaran\u00a0<em>Ady Gil<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Ady Gil<\/em> is believed to be sinking and chances of salvage are very grim.&#8221; \u2014From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seashepherd.org\/\">SeaShepard.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Japan kills about 1,200 whales a year in Antarctica under what it says is a scientific program allowed by the International Whaling Commission, despite a moratorium on commercial whaling. Critics say the program is a front for illegal whaling, and Sea Shepherd sends ships to Antarctica each season to try to stop the hunt.&#8221; \u2014From&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[7,10,69],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-animals","tag-links","tag-sea-shepard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}