{"id":21927,"date":"2020-08-21T23:11:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/21\/mauritius-oil-spill-crews-prepare-to-sink-ship-despite-opposition"},"modified":"2020-08-21T23:11:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T14:11:08","slug":"crews-prepare-to-sink-mauritius-spill-ship-despite-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21927","title":{"rendered":"Crews prepare to sink Mauritius spill ship despite opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MV Wakashio has split in two and leaked 1,000 tonnes of oil into the water since it ran aground<\/p>\n<p>Salvage crews were preparing to sink a Japanese-owned ship that ran aground off Mauritius, despite opposition from environmental campaigners.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/16\/experts-and-volunteers-scramble-to-save-mauritiuss-wildlife-after-oil-spill\">MV Wakashio broke into two on Saturday<\/a>, almost three weeks after hitting a reef and spilling 1,000 tonnes of oil into idyllic waters full of marine life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/21\/mauritius-oil-spill-crews-prepare-to-sink-ship-despite-opposition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MV Wakashio has split in two and leaked 1,000 tonnes of oil into the water since it ran agroundSalvage crews were preparing to sink a Japanese-owned ship that ran aground off Mauritius, despite opposition from environmental campaigners.The MV Wakashio &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":924,"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":[401,6,456,65,88,755,467,449,64,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-business","category-conservation","category-environment","category-japan","category-mauritius","category-oceans","category-oil","category-oil-spills","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\/21927","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\/924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21928,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21927\/revisions\/21928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}