{"id":1839,"date":"2011-08-18T14:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T14:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2011-08-18T14:49:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T14:49:20","slug":"aggressive-hawaiian-monk-seal-escapes-death-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/18\/aggressive-hawaiian-monk-seal-escapes-death-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggressive Hawaiian monk seal escapes death sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Media Watch, The Garden Island, 16 August 2011<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/thegardenisland.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/9\/ac\/9ac2943f-b236-5b93-836f-13c39a3e283b\/4e4b61087a598.preview-300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/>A controversial decision by federal officials to \u201clethally remove\u201d an adult Hawaiian monk seal that was attacking \u2014 and apparently killing \u2014 pups at Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands had to be put on hold: The seal was nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have basically missed our opportunity for his removal for this year, and we will begin reviewing our options for dealing with his aggression for next year,\u201d said Charles Littnan, head of the Hawaiian monk seal research program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/thegardenisland.com\/news\/local\/article_682985a8-c8ae-11e0-aed9-001cc4c002e0.html\">Monk seal escapes sealed fate<\/a>, The Garden Island, 16 August 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Watch, The Garden Island, 16 August 2011 A controversial decision by federal officials to \u201clethally remove\u201d an adult Hawaiian monk seal that was attacking \u2014 and apparently killing \u2014 pups at Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands had to be put on hold: The seal was nowhere to be found. \u201cWe have basically &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/18\/aggressive-hawaiian-monk-seal-escapes-death-sentence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aggressive Hawaiian monk seal escapes death sentence&#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":[35,37,48],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-management","tag-papahanaumokuakea-marine-national-monument","tag-nwhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","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=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}