{"id":195,"date":"2009-11-10T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maritimeawards.wordpress.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2009-11-10T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T18:26:08","slug":"rubbish-in-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Rubbish in the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from any national boundary, the detritus of human life is collecting in a swirling current so large that it defies precise measurement.<\/div>\n<p>See the New York Times photostream (Mario Aguilera\/Associated Press) <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1VrTkA\">here<\/a> and the article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1mnsiD\">Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash<\/a>&#8221; by Lindsey Hoshaw.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-196\" href=\"http:\/\/maritimeawards.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/10\/rubbish-in-the-pacific\/attachment\/31016851\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-196\" title=\"31016851\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/31016851.jpg\" alt=\"31016851\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/31016851.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/31016851-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from any national boundary, the detritus of human life is collecting in a swirling current so large that it defies precise measurement. See the New York Times photostream (Mario Aguilera\/Associated Press) here and the article &#8220;Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash&#8221; by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[81,116],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime-issue","tag-marine-pollution","tag-pacific-ocean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimeawards.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}