{"id":68919,"date":"2018-11-27T02:03:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T01:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/27\/great-pacific-garbage-patch-swimmer-forced-to-stop-after-nearly-3000km\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T02:03:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T01:03:48","slug":"great-pacific-garbage-patch-swimmer-forced-to-stop-after-nearly-3000km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=68919","title":{"rendered":"Great Pacific garbage patch swimmer forced to stop after nearly 3,000km"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Storm-damaged support ship means Ben Lecomte, 50, has to divert to Hawaii A French-American plastic pollution campaigner has given up his attempt to swim across the Pacific ocean after a storm broke the mainsail of his support ship, organisers have said.Ben Lecomte had completed about 2,780km (1,500 nautical miles) of the 9,260km (5,000-nautical mile) journey. The trip was to take him through 1,600km of the \u201cGreat Pacific garbage patch\u201d, in an attempt to raise awareness of plastic pollution. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/nov\/27\/great-pacific-garbage-patch-swimmer-forced-to-stop-after-nearly-3000km\" target=\"_blank\">Great Pacific garbage patch swimmer forced to stop after nearly 3,000km<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm-damaged support ship means Ben Lecomte, 50, has to divert to Hawaii A French-American plastic pollution campaigner has given up his attempt to swim across the Pacific ocean after a storm broke the mainsail of his support ship, organisers have said.Ben Lecomte had completed about 2,780km (1,500 nautical miles) of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}