{"id":6406,"date":"2009-11-18T07:58:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T12:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2010-01-24T15:39:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T20:39:34","slug":"lightning-never-strikes-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6406","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Never Strikes Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somali pirates attack the <em>Maersk Alabama<\/em> &#8211; the ship from last spring&#8217;s hostage drama with captain Richard Phillips &#8211; again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This time, the crew <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20091118\/ap_on_re_us\/piracy\">drove the pirates off<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"lw_1258548449_0\">Somali pirates<\/span> attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months on Wednesday, but guards on board the U.S.-flagged cargo ship repelled the takeover attempt, the EU&#8217;s naval force said.Pirates hijacked the Maersk Alabama last April and took <span id=\"lw_1258548449_1\">ship captain Richard Phillips<\/span> hostage, holding him at gunpoint in a lifeboat for five days. <span id=\"lw_1258548449_2\">Navy SEAL<\/span> sharpshooters freed Phillips while killing three pirates in a daring nighttime attack.<\/p>\n<p>Somali pirates attacked the ship with automatic weapons early Wednesday about 350 nautical miles east of the Somali coast, but guards on board the craft fired back and thwarted the attempted hijacking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good to see that Maersk Shipping ignored Obama Administration advice to &#8220;apologize to the pirates&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somali pirates attack the Maersk Alabama &#8211; the ship from last spring&#8217;s hostage drama with captain Richard Phillips &#8211; again.\u00a0 This time, the crew drove the pirates off: Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months on Wednesday, but guards on board the U.S.-flagged cargo ship repelled the takeover attempt, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406","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=6406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6408,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions\/6408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}