{"id":400,"date":"2010-06-04T15:46:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=400"},"modified":"2016-12-05T21:32:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T03:32:54","slug":"the-gulf-of-mexico-is-a-very-big-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2010\/06\/04\/the-gulf-of-mexico-is-a-very-big-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gulf of Mexico is a Very Big Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1%;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean.\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf  The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 70%;\"> &mdash; BP CEO Tony Hayward [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/may\/13\/bp-boss-admits-mistakes-gulf-oil-spill\">Guardian<\/a>] <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nUnfortunately, not so tiny relative to attempts to clean up your spew.  Nice try, though, doctor.\n<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<caption align=\"bottom\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 70%; font-style: italic;\">hat tip: [<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_edvxM1dkFlo\/S9GnukH5IcI\/AAAAAAAAAZU\/uT2d04mkyH0\/s1600\/USCG_Getty_slicks_22apr10.jpg\">photo<\/a>]<\/span><\/caption>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/big_ocean.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/big_ocean-1023x645.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"drawing of oil skimming ship in big blue sea\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean.\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume. &mdash; BP CEO Tony Hayward [Guardian] Unfortunately, not so tiny relative to attempts to clean up your spew. Nice try, though, doctor. hat tip: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/4446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}