{"id":4537,"date":"2009-04-08T12:58:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T17:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2009-04-08T12:58:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T17:58:03","slug":"ahem-we-take-a-break-from-this-blogs-normal-sober-moderation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4537","title":{"rendered":"Ahem.  We Take A Break From This Blog&#8217;s Normal Sober Moderation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to exclaim &#8220;America.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7990566.stm\">F**k yeah!<\/a>\u00a0(with emphasis joyously, flagrantly and thankfully added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US crew of a ship hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia has <strong>retaken control of the vessel, according to Pentagon sources<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Unnamed US defence officials said <strong>one pirate had been captured<\/strong> by the 20-strong crew of the Maersk Alabama, seized earlier in the Indian Ocean.<br \/>\nBut the vessel&#8217;s Danish owners, Maersk, said they could not confirm that the vessel had been retaken.<\/p>\n<p>It was the sixth ship seized off Somalia in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>It is reportedly the first time in 200 years that a US-flagged vessel has been seized by pirates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And hopefully the last.<\/p>\n<p>Note to the world&#8217;s scumbags; we don&#8217;t even <em>need <\/em>a military to kick your thieving asses.<\/p>\n<p>God bless America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to exclaim &#8220;America.\u00a0 F**k yeah!\u00a0(with emphasis joyously, flagrantly and thankfully added): The US crew of a ship hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia has retaken control of the vessel, according to Pentagon sources. Unnamed US defence officials said one pirate had been captured by the 20-strong crew of the Maersk Alabama, seized earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}