{"id":1371,"date":"2013-07-03T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2013-07-03T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T12:07:11","slug":"ban-the-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/07\/ban-the-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban the boats!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now we know the reason for mass strandings of whales. It is sonar used by the world&#8217;s navies.<br \/>\nGood time I think, in the era of austerity to abolish the royal navy and launch a campaign to ban the boats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now we know the reason for mass strandings of whales. It is sonar used by the world&#8217;s navies. Good time I think, in the era of austerity to abolish the royal navy and launch a campaign to ban the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/07\/ban-the-boats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-m7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1181,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/01\/i-know-where-i-lost-my-marbles\/","url_meta":{"origin":1371,"position":0},"title":"I know where I lost my marbles","author":"taxicle","date":"January 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The earth is hollow you see. 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