{"id":21337,"date":"2020-08-04T14:22:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T05:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/missing-sailors-stranded-on-pacific-island-saved-by-giant-sos-in-the-sand"},"modified":"2020-08-04T14:22:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T05:22:36","slug":"missing-sailors-stranded-on-pacific-island-saved-by-giant-sos-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21337","title":{"rendered":"Missing sailors stranded on Pacific island saved by giant SOS in the sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men stuck on tiny Pikelot island after their boat ran out of fuel and strayed off course spotted by Australian and US military aircraft<\/p>\n<p>Three Micronesian sailors stranded on a remote Pacific island have been found alive and well after a rescue team spotted their giant SOS message written into the sand on a beach.<\/p>\n<p>Australian and US military aircraft found the three men on tiny Pikelot island, nearly 200km west of where they\u2019d set off. Rescuers said they were \u201cin good condition\u201d with no significant injuries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/missing-sailors-stranded-on-pacific-island-saved-by-giant-sos-in-the-sand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men stuck on tiny Pikelot island after their boat ran out of fuel and strayed off course spotted by Australian and US military aircraftThree Micronesian sailors stranded on a remote Pacific island have been found alive and well after a rescue tea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,952,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-micronesia","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21351,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21337\/revisions\/21351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}