{"id":13845,"date":"2020-11-12T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13845"},"modified":"2020-11-12T23:32:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T07:32:46","slug":"happy-50th-anniversary-of-whale-detonation-%f0%9f%90%b3%f0%9f%a7%a8%f0%9f%92%a5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/12\/happy-50th-anniversary-of-whale-detonation-%f0%9f%90%b3%f0%9f%a7%a8%f0%9f%92%a5\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 50th anniversary of whale detonation &#x1f433;&#x1f9e8;&#x1f4a5;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I really enjoy Google&#8217;s super-cheeky internal discussion list, Terrible Ideas. Folks are celebrating one whale &#x1f644;&#x1f937;&#x1f3fb;&#x200d;&#x2642;&#xfe0f; of a terrible idea, executed 50 years ago today. Behold, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exploding_whale#Oregon\">the exploding whale of Oregon<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FROM THE ARCHIVES: The exploding whale of Florence, Oregon\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ax7kENH-A7s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Update: OMG, they&#8217;ve actually renamed the park &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/travel\/2020\/06\/now-you-can-visit-exploding-whale-memorial-park-on-the-oregon-coast.html\">Exploding Whale Memorial Park<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/travel\/2020\/06\/now-you-can-visit-exploding-whale-memorial-park-on-the-oregon-coast.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"804\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Master-Exploder.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Master-Exploder.jpg 960w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Master-Exploder-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Master-Exploder-768x643.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoy Google&#8217;s super-cheeky internal discussion list, Terrible Ideas. Folks are celebrating one whale &#x1f644;&#x1f937;&#x1f3fb;&#x200d;&#x2642;&#xfe0f; of a terrible idea, executed 50 years ago today. Behold, the exploding whale of Oregon: Update: OMG, they&#8217;ve actually renamed the park &#8220;Exploding Whale Memorial Park.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13859,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13845\/revisions\/13859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}