{"id":26301,"date":"2009-04-08T14:03:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T14:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/08\/pirates-take-ship-crew-takes-s\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T14:03:24","slug":"pirates-take-ship-crew-takes-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/pirates-take-ship-crew-takes-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates take ship, crew takes ship back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 200 years, a ship of the sea sailing under a US flag has been taken by pirates.  And, in an unusual move, the ship&#8217;s crew went ahead and took the ship back.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s reported that one pirate is on board under crew control &#8211; the other three were trying to flee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest the other three pirates jumped overboard. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7990566.stm\"><br \/>\nDetails here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not sure yet how this will affect<a href=\"http:\/\/vis.berkeley.edu\/courses\/cs294-10-fa08\/wiki\/images\/0\/04\/FSM_Pirates.png\"> global warming.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  The pirates are in a life boat and are holding the ship&#8217;s captain hostage.  A US destroyer is about 10 hours away, but in six hours or so will be in helicopter range.<\/p>\n<p>The good news:  At least it was not Zombie Pirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 200 years, a ship of the sea sailing under a US flag has been taken by pirates. And, in an unusual move, the ship&#8217;s crew went ahead and took the ship back. &#8220;It&#8217;s reported that one pirate is on board under crew control &#8211; the other three were trying to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/pirates-take-ship-crew-takes-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pirates take ship, crew takes ship back<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Qd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}