{"id":16323,"date":"2017-06-25T19:24:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T09:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16323"},"modified":"2024-06-30T23:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T13:38:09","slug":"another-whale-killed-by-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16323","title":{"rendered":"Another Whale Killed by Plastic Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have tears in my eyes as I write this. It is such an avoidable tragedy.<br \/>\nPlease do what you can personally to keep plastic from entering our drains and water ways.<\/p>\n<p>If you see a plastic bag or bottle, wrapper or drink carton, pick it up and dispose of it properly. I did tonight as I walked my dog. Two drink bottles, a plastic bag and a dozen pieces of other rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t let the ignorant and irresponsible define us humans.<\/p>\n<p>It just give us all a bad name.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d love you even more if you shared the video and passed it on so it helped create a tidal wave of improved in our collective operating basis.<br \/>\nThanks in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kZq6vA5tQms&amp;t=23s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kZq6vA5tQms&amp;t=23s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have tears in my eyes as I write this. It is such an avoidable tragedy. Please do what you can personally to keep plastic from entering our drains and water ways. If you see a plastic bag or bottle, wrapper or drink carton, pick it up and dispose of it properly. I did tonight &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Whale Killed by Plastic Waste&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52079,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323\/revisions\/52079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}