{"id":991,"date":"2007-11-27T11:37:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T16:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/name-that-whale\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T11:39:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T16:39:04","slug":"name-that-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/name-that-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Name that Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh lord, I must be sleep deprived, but this struck me as so funny, I had to resort to some very fancy peristaltic acrobatics to make sure I didn&#8217;t spray paint my monitor with coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace is having a Name a Whale contest.\u00c2\u00a0 They asked for names from the public.\u00c2\u00a0 They got 11 000 names, which were whittled down to 30, noble names from various languages, but one of which was <strong>Mr. Splashy Pants<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 Guess which one currently has an overwhelming lead?<\/p>\n<p>Results <a href=\"http:\/\/vote.greenpeace.org\/11\/12\/results\">here<\/a>, vote for Mr. Splashy Pants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/campaigns\/oceans\/whaling\/great-whale-trail\/gwt-vote\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Saw this on <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/191118760\/mr-splashy-pants-in.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh lord, I must be sleep deprived, but this struck me as so funny, I had to resort to some very fancy peristaltic acrobatics to make sure I didn&#8217;t spray paint my monitor with coffee. Greenpeace is having a Name &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/name-that-whale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-fZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}