{"id":26304,"date":"2009-04-09T07:54:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T07:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/09\/pirate-update\/"},"modified":"2009-04-09T07:54:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T07:54:20","slug":"pirate-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/pirate-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> Negotiations are continuing for the release of an American captain held by Somali pirates in a lifeboat in the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken from cargo ship Maersk Alabama after it was briefly seized by pirates a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>A US warship on anti-pirate patrol in the high-risk area sailed to the ship.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear what the pirates want, but maritime sources say it could be a ransom or compensation for their boat which sank during the attack. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7991114.stm\"><br \/>\nMore with the BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations are continuing for the release of an American captain held by Somali pirates in a lifeboat in the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa. He was taken from cargo ship Maersk Alabama after it was briefly seized by pirates a day earlier. A US warship on anti-pirate patrol in the high-risk area sailed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/pirate-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pirate Update<\/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\/p5fhV1-6Qg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26304"}],"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=26304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}