{"id":2519,"date":"2007-10-16T23:34:08","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T04:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2007-10-16T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T04:34:08","slug":"piracy-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Piracy up again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/indo_pirate.jpg\" title=\"Pirate Hunters.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/indo_pirate.jpg\" alt=\"Pirate Hunters.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icc-ccs.org\/prc\/overview.php\" title=\"Piracy Reporting Centre.\">Piracy Reporting Centre<\/a> says Piracy is up once again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the first 9 months of the year a total of 15 vessels were hijacked, 172 crewmembers were taken hostage, 63 were kidnapped, and 21 were assaulted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was a lull in Piracy in 2005 but as we all know that was just the clam before the <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/16\/after-a-dip-in-attacks-pirates-mount-a-comeback\/index.html?hp\" title=\"After a Dip in Attacks, Pirates Mount a Comeback.\">storm<\/a>.  I&#8217;m not sure if the photo above is of Pirates or Pirate Hunters but those guys look pretty serious.  Granted, I don&#8217;t see where they could attach a plank.<\/p>\n<p>Lately there has been a bevy of Piracy articles in the news:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/magma.nationalgeographic.com\/ngm\/2007-10\/malacca-strait-pirates\/pirates-text.html\" title=\"National Geographic:  Dark Passage.\">National Geographic:  Dark Passage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6592795.stm\" title=\"BBC:  Dip in global pirate ship attacks.\">BBC:   Dip in global pirate ship attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7046888.stm\" title=\"BBC: Somalia's pirates are 'thriving'\">BBC: Somalia&#8217;s pirates are &#8216;thriving&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5j8fTJYY72y2dgcyR2QGlMueG7tQwD8SAH3500\" title=\"AP:  Piracy Off Somalia's Coast Increases.\">AP:  Piracy Off Somalia&#8217;s Coast Increases<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Piracy Reporting Centre says Piracy is up once again: In the first 9 months of the year a total of 15 vessels were hijacked, 172 crewmembers were taken hostage, 63 were kidnapped, and 21 were assaulted. There was a lull in Piracy in 2005 but as we all know that was just the clam [&hellip;]<\/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,"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":[20],"tags":[285],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vikingspirates","tag-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-ED","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}