{"id":4567,"date":"2009-04-12T16:49:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T21:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2009-04-12T16:59:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T21:59:50","slug":"easter-seals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4567","title":{"rendered":"Easter SEALs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course not all of the world&#8217;s intractable problems can be solved by sending in the commandos.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s nice to know that when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/13\/world\/africa\/13pirates.html?hp\">when we need to <\/a>&#8211; no matter who our leader is&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Right before his rescue, Richard Phillips, the 53-year-old captain of the Maersk Alabama, was being held in a capsule-like lifeboat in the Gulf of Aden. The pirates, armed with AK-47s and small-caliber pistols, were pointing the rifle at the captain, Vice Admiral William E. Gortney said at a news conference in Washington. The situation amounted to \u201cimminent danger,\u201d the vice admiral said, noting that the Navy had standing orders from <a title=\"More articles about Barack Obama.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/o\/barack_obama\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">President Obama<\/a> to attack if the captain\u2019s life were in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>A little after 7 p.m. in <a title=\"More news and information about Somalia.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/somalia\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Somalia<\/a> (which is seven hours ahead of Eastern time) , U.S. special forces aboard the U.S.S. Bainbridge shot and killed the pirates from 25 to 30 meters away, the vice admiral said, and pulled the captain from the water&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moosecreekforge.com\/images\/SEALtridentlg.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cI\u2019m just the byline. The real heroes are the Navy, the Seals, those who have brought me home,\u201d Phillips said, according to John Reinhart, the Maersk Line president and chief executive. A Navy photograph showed Mr. Phillips shaking hands with the commanding officer of the Bainbridge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote \/><p>&#8230;that we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course not all of the world&#8217;s intractable problems can be solved by sending in the commandos. But it&#8217;s nice to know that when when we need to &#8211; no matter who our leader is&#8230;: Right before his rescue, Richard Phillips, the 53-year-old captain of the Maersk Alabama, was being held in a capsule-like lifeboat [&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-4567","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\/4567","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=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}