{"id":1677,"date":"2010-05-09T05:11:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T13:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2010-05-09T05:12:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T13:12:04","slug":"flipper-glows-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/09\/flipper-glows-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury&#8217;s risin&#8217;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the sort of irony that makes for happy news (oxymoron?); but the combination of greed, willful ignorance, stubborn clinging to atavistic cultural mojo, and karmic rebound can&#8217;t be dismissed in the latest reports coming out of Taiji, Japan \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2010\/05\/09\/japanese-village-known-dolphin-hunts-dangerous-high-mercury-levels-illness\/\">&#8220;Residents of the dolphin-hunting village depicted in the Oscar-winning documentary &#8216;The Cove&#8217; have dangerously high mercury levels, likely because of their fondness for dolphin and whale meat, Japan&#8217;s government said Sunday.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the sort of irony that makes for happy news (oxymoron?); but the combination of greed, willful ignorance, stubborn clinging to atavistic cultural mojo, and karmic rebound can&#8217;t be dismissed in the latest reports coming out of Taiji, Japan \u2014 &#8220;Residents of the dolphin-hunting village depicted in the Oscar-winning documentary &#8216;The Cove&#8217; have dangerously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}