{"id":61746,"date":"2024-02-08T03:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/feb\/07\/killer-whales-trapped-drift-ice-off-japan-hokkaido-coast-escape"},"modified":"2024-02-08T03:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:01:51","slug":"killer-whales-trapped-in-drift-ice-off-japans-hokkaido-coast-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61746","title":{"rendered":"Killer whales trapped in drift ice off Japan\u2019s Hokkaido coast escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pod of orcas in north Japan freed themselves as gaps between the ice grew, officials say<\/p>\n<p>A pod of killer whales trapped by drift ice off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan\u2019s northernmost main island, have apparently safely escaped, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>The orcas were initially spotted by a fisher who reported them to officials in the town of Rausu, on the north-east coast of Hokkaido, on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/feb\/07\/killer-whales-trapped-drift-ice-off-japan-hokkaido-coast-escape\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pod of orcas in north Japan freed themselves as gaps between the ice grew, officials sayA pod of killer whales trapped by drift ice off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan\u2019s northernmost main island, have apparently safely escaped, officials have said.The orc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,1676,65,88,468,1746,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cetaceans","category-environment","category-japan","category-marine-life","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\/61746","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61749,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61746\/revisions\/61749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}