{"id":88746,"date":"2019-03-18T08:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/dead-whale-found-with-88-pounds-of-plastic-in-stomach-in-the-philippines"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:42:24","slug":"dead-whale-found-with-88-pounds-of-plastic-in-stomach-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/dead-whale-found-with-88-pounds-of-plastic-in-stomach-in-the-philippines","title":{"rendered":"Dead whale found with 88 pounds of plastic in stomach in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dead-whale-found-with-88-pounds-of-plastic-in-stomach-in-the-philippines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Messed up is the right phrasing for it, I figure.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>March 18 (UPI) \u2014 After a dead whale washed ashore in the Philippines, scientists pulled 88 pounds of plastic debris from the mammal\u2019s intestines. The young Cuvier\u2019s beaked whale died from gastric shock, according to biologists.<\/p>\n<p>The necropsy was conducted by scientists at the D\u2019 Bone Collector Museum. They were assigned by biologists with the Philippines Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whale had the most plastic we have ever seen in a whale. It\u2019s disgusting,\u201d museum biologists <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=2689346287758609&id=216407245052538&__tn__=-R\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in a Facebook update<\/a>. \u201cAction must be taken by the government against those who continue to treat the waterways and ocean as dumpsters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2019\/03\/18\/2151552912279\/?sl=1\">https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2019\/03\/18\/2151552912279\/?sl=1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messed up is the right phrasing for it, I figure. March 18 (UPI) \u2014 After a dead whale washed ashore in the Philippines, scientists pulled 88 pounds of plastic debris from the mammal\u2019s intestines. The young Cuvier\u2019s beaked whale died from gastric shock, according to biologists. The necropsy was conducted by scientists at the D\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}