{"id":308,"date":"2007-11-18T22:04:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T22:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2007-11-19T22:14:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T22:14:34","slug":"japan-slaughtering-whales-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/japan-slaughtering-whales-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan slaughtering whales, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whaling\">whaling<\/a> fleet has set sail aiming to harpoon humpback whales for the first time in decades.\u00a0 The fleet is conducting its largest hunt in the South Pacific &#8211; it has instructions to kill up to 1,000 whales, including 50 humpbacks.\u00a0 The humpback hunt is the first since a mid-1960s global ban and has drawn strong protests from environmentalists.<\/p>\n<p>Its a bit like the US cotton subsidies &#8211; out of date and unnecessary.\u00a0 But this venture is a bit more bloody.\u00a0 It will be a sign of maturity when Japan finally gives up the farcical habit of massacring whales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese whaling fleet has set sail aiming to harpoon humpback whales for the first time in decades.\u00a0 The fleet is conducting its largest hunt in the South Pacific &#8211; it has instructions to kill up to 1,000 whales, including 50 humpbacks.\u00a0 The humpback hunt is the first since a mid-1960s global ban and has &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/japan-slaughtering-whales-again\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan slaughtering whales, again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}