{"id":8215,"date":"2010-06-26T14:27:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T14:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/26\/is-bp-burning-turtles-alive\/"},"modified":"2010-06-26T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T14:27:58","slug":"is-bp-burning-turtles-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/26\/is-bp-burning-turtles-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Is BP burning turtles alive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to some sources, yes.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>News has just emerged from the Gulf Coast that BP is burning endangered sea turtles alive. 1<\/p>\n<p>A boat captain who has been leading efforts to rescue the endangered turtles says BP has blocked his crews from entering the areas where the animals are trapped, effectively shutting down the rescue operation.<\/p>\n<p>BP is using &#8220;controlled burns&#8221; to contain the oil spill. Shrimp boats create a corral of oil by dragging together fire-resistant booms and then lighting the enclosed &#8220;burn box&#8221; on fire. If turtles are not removed from the area before the fire is lit, they are literally burned alive. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/act.credoaction.com\/campaign\/bp_endangered_turtles\/?r=5664&#038;id=9762-2720170-RKsPyKx\"><br \/>\nDetails here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to some sources, yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4412],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-28v","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215"}],"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=8215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}