{"id":24400,"date":"2020-11-03T02:11:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/nov\/02\/race-save-pilot-whales-sri-lanka-biggest-mass-beaching"},"modified":"2020-11-03T02:11:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:11:59","slug":"race-to-save-100-whales-in-sri-lankas-biggest-mass-beaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24400","title":{"rendered":"Race to save 100 whales in Sri Lanka&#8217;s biggest mass beaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Navy joins forces with rescuers and volunteers in effort to push pilot whales back into ocean<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers and volunteers were racing to save about 100 pilot whales stranded on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/srilanka\">Sri Lanka<\/a>\u2019s western coast in the country\u2019s biggest mass beaching.<\/p>\n<p>The short-finned pilot whales began beaching at Panadura, 15 miles (25km) south of Colombo, shortly before dusk. Within an hour their numbers swelled to about 100, a local police chief, Sanjaya Irasinghe, said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/nov\/02\/race-save-pilot-whales-sri-lanka-biggest-mass-beaching\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navy joins forces with rescuers and volunteers in effort to push pilot whales back into oceanRescuers and volunteers were racing to save about 100 pilot whales stranded on Sri Lanka\u2019s western coast in the country\u2019s biggest mass beaching.The short-finne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1554,"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":[265,1676,65,468,467,61,674,1746,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-cetaceans","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-oceans","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-whales","category-wildlife","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\/24400","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\/1554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24401,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24400\/revisions\/24401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}