{"id":26947,"date":"2015-10-29T20:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T03:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/coast-guard-icebreaker-back-after-pioneering-north-pole-trip\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T20:33:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T03:33:30","slug":"coast-guard-icebreaker-back-after-pioneering-north-pole-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/coast-guard-icebreaker-back-after-pioneering-north-pole-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard icebreaker back after pioneering North Pole trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SEATTLE \u2014<\/strong> A U.S. polar icebreaker has returned to Seattle after cutting its way to the North Pole in support of a mission to study the health of the Arctic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard Cutter Healy pulled into its Seattle homeport Thursday, about two months after it became the first U.S surface vessel to make the trip unaccompanied.<\/p>\n<p>Crews and scientists left Dutch Harbor on Aug. 9, and spent 65 days at sea. The 420-foot long icebreaker traveled more than 5,000 nautical miles and scientists aboard collected thousands of ice, water, sediment and air samples along the way.<\/p>\n<p>The Healy is the country\u2019s newest high-latitude vessel and is capable of breaking more than 10 feet of ice.<\/p>\n<p>It sailed to the North Pole in support of Geotraces, an international effort to study the world\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 A U.S. polar icebreaker has returned to Seattle after cutting its way to the North Pole in support of a mission to study the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/health\/\">health<\/a> of the Arctic Ocean. The Coast Guard Cutter Healy pulled into its Seattle homeport Thursday, about two months after it became the first U.S surface vessel to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":26948,"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-26947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26947","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=26947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26947"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}