{"id":24381,"date":"2016-04-20T08:03:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/uk-official-new-ship-unlikely-to-be-named-boaty-mcboatface\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:03:51","slug":"uk-official-new-ship-unlikely-to-be-named-boaty-mcboatface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/uk-official-new-ship-unlikely-to-be-named-boaty-mcboatface\/","title":{"rendered":"UK official: New ship unlikely to be named Boaty McBoatface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Boaty McBoatface may be sunk.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s science minister has indicated that the country\u2019s newest polar research vessel is unlikely to be christened with the name, which topped an online poll.<\/p>\n<p>The Natural Environment Research Council had asked for help finding a name reflecting the 200 million-pound ($284 million) ship\u2019s mission and celebrating British naval history.<\/p>\n<p>The jokey suggestion Boaty McBoatface got 124,109 votes, more than three times its nearest rival.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was advisory. Science Minister Jo Johnson said Monday that \u201cimaginative\u201d suggestions would all be reviewed. But he said the vessel\u2019s name should capture \u201cthe spirit of scientific endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former BBC radio host James Hand, who proposed Boaty McBoatface, has apologized for the furor. Hand says he actually voted to name the ship after naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Boaty McBoatface may be sunk. Britain\u2019s science minister has indicated that the country\u2019s newest polar <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/research\/\">research<\/a> vessel is unlikely to be christened with the name, which topped an online poll. The Natural Environment Research Council had asked for help finding a name reflecting the 200 million-pound ($284 million) ship\u2019s mission and celebrating [&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":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381","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=24381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24381"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}