{"id":26324,"date":"2009-04-12T18:13:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/12\/pirate-situation-totally-desta\/"},"modified":"2009-04-12T18:13:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T18:13:53","slug":"pirate-situation-totally-desta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/12\/pirate-situation-totally-desta\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Situation Totally Destabilized."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the old days (last week) Somali pirates would occasionally board a ship, there&#8217;d be some negotiations, money would change hands, and the ship would be back on track. That was not a good system, but it was a system.<\/p>\n<p>Then the first American flagged ship to get taken by the pirates comes along and the crew does the Chuck Norris thing and the whole system has collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>The latest news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Panama flagged carrier freighter was attacked by pirates, and the attack was repulsed with fire hoses.<\/li>\n<li>Friday, on a yacht sailing through the area, one Frenchman and two pirates died during an attempted rescue by the French military.<\/li>\n<li>Negotiations are still underway regarding the US flagged ship and its captain, still held hostage on a lifeboat.  <\/li>\n<li>Naval vessels are converging on the area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7994980.stm\">bbc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the old days (last week) Somali pirates would occasionally board a ship, there&#8217;d be some negotiations, money would change hands, and the ship would be back on track. That was not a good system, but it was a system. Then the first American flagged ship to get taken by the pirates comes along and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/12\/pirate-situation-totally-desta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pirate Situation Totally Destabilized.<\/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\/p5fhV1-6QA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26324"}],"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=26324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}