{"id":16265,"date":"2017-01-16T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/tangled-whale-rescued-near-pow\/"},"modified":"2017-01-16T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:00:50","slug":"tangled-whale-rescued-near-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/tangled-whale-rescued-near-pow\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangled whale rescued near POW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A humpback whale entangled in a barge anchor cable near Prince of Wales Island was released through the work of good Samaritans last week.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue was first reported by KRBD-FM radio in Ketchikan.<\/p>\n<p>According to KRBD, the whale was discovered Wednesday wrapped in an inch-and-a-quarter cable linked to a 7,000-pound anchor.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers didn\u2019t need to dive to help the whale \u2014 when the whale surfaced, they cut the cable from a small dive boat. They then used a system of pulleys to pull the cable away from the whale.<\/p>\n<p>The whale seemed to have suffered only minor injuries, but the rescuers said the animal appeared tired from its ordeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A humpback whale entangled in a barge anchor cable near Prince of Wales Island was released through the work of good Samaritans last week. The rescue was first reported by KRBD-FM radio in Ketchikan. According to KRBD, the whale was discovered Wednesday wrapped in an inch-and-a-quarter cable linked to a 7,000-pound anchor. Rescuers didn\u2019t need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16265"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}