{"id":1806,"date":"2011-06-24T17:57:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T17:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2011-06-24T18:01:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T18:01:23","slug":"teenager-fined-100-for-slapping-hawaiian-monk-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/24\/teenager-fined-100-for-slapping-hawaiian-monk-seal\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager fined $100 for slapping Hawaiian monk seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Media Watch, Treehugger, 23 June 2011<\/h5>\n<figure style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/cant-touch-monk-seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"216\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Jared Wong \/ CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hawaiian monk seals have plenty to worry about these days, what with a  sea full of hungry sharks and a long history of being hunted by humans  &#8212; but now antics of rowdy teenagers has been added to that list. Last  March, 19-year-old Cameron Cayaban saw one of the endangered seals and  acted on a very bad idea: he ran up to the protected species and slapped  it. The seal, undoubtedly confused by the offense, returned to the sea.  Cameron, on the other hand, found himself in court.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a>Little did the seal-slapper realize that the animal had a name, and  more than a few powerful friends watching out for it. There were a group  of volunteer seal observers that day on Kalaeloa&#8217;s White Plains Beach,  where the incident occurred, and they reported what young Cameron had  done to Kermit (that&#8217;s the seal) to local military police. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2011\/06\/teenager-to-pay-100-for-slapping-an-endangered-seal.php\">Continues<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2011\/06\/teenager-to-pay-100-for-slapping-an-endangered-seal.php\">Teenager to Pay $100 for Slapping, Endangered Seal, Treehugger<\/a>, 23 June 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Watch, Treehugger, 23 June 2011 Hawaiian monk seals have plenty to worry about these days, what with a sea full of hungry sharks and a long history of being hunted by humans &#8212; but now antics of rowdy teenagers has been added to that list. Last March, 19-year-old Cameron Cayaban saw one of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/24\/teenager-fined-100-for-slapping-hawaiian-monk-seal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teenager fined $100 for slapping Hawaiian monk seal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30,34],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-main-hawaiian-islands","tag-human-seal-interaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}