{"id":4712,"date":"2009-03-09T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T16:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/09\/sailing-the-great-pacific-garb\/"},"modified":"2009-03-09T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T16:19:12","slug":"sailing-the-great-pacific-garb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/sailing-the-great-pacific-garb\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/CharlesMoore_2009U-embed_high.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/CharlesMoore-2009U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=470\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nCapt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch &#8212; an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he&#8217;s drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch &#8212; an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he&#8217;s drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.<\/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\/p5fhV1-1e0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712"}],"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=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}