{"id":2794,"date":"2007-11-02T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/11\/02\/15\/36\/blame-jack-sparrow\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T23:36:08","slug":"blame-jack-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/11\/02\/15\/36\/blame-jack-sparrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame Jack Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/africa\/10\/17\/pirate.attacks.ap\/index.html#cnnSTCText\">Pirate attacks worldwide jumped 14 percent in the first nine months of 2007, with the biggest increases off the poorly policed waters of Somalia and Nigeria &#8230;  Oil-rich Nigeria suffered 26 pirate attacks so far this year, up from nine in the same period last year. &#8230; criminals are now targeting the most vulnerable vessels &#8212; shipping trawlers &#8212; because authorities have cracked down on crude oil theft. The pirates also seize valuable communications gear.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/africa\/11\/02\/somalia.pirates.japan.ap\/index.html?eref=time_world\">Pirates who hijacked a Japanese tanker off Somalia earlier this week are demanding a U.S. warship shadowing the vessel back off &#8230; The U.S. Navy&#8217;s guided missile destroyer USS Porter came to the aid of the Japanese chemical tanker this week, at one point opening fire to destroy pirate skiffs tied to it &#8230; Earlier this week, a North Korean tanker overrun by pirates was taken back after crew members overpowered the hijackers in a bloody fight. The hijackers were being held aboard the ship until they can be handed over for prosecution at a port.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirate attacks worldwide jumped 14 percent in the first nine months of 2007, with the biggest increases off the poorly policed waters of Somalia and Nigeria &#8230; Oil-rich Nigeria suffered 26 pirate attacks so&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,258,256,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrrrrrrrrr","category-nigeria","category-pirates","category-somalia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}