{"id":209491,"date":"2019-04-11T22:51:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T02:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=209491"},"modified":"2019-04-12T06:07:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:07:48","slug":"american-biologist-cleans-up-filthy-gutter-in-davao-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/11\/american-biologist-cleans-up-filthy-gutter-in-davao-city\/","title":{"rendered":"American biologist cleans up filthy gutter in Davao City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdarrell.blatchley.9%2Fposts%2F10219179943707083&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"567\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8212; An American marine biologist has taken the initiative to clean up a clogged gutter in one of Davao City&#8217;s most crowded barangays (villages).<\/p>\n<p>Even under the heat of the sun, Darrell Blatchley rakes away the accumulated trash of plastics that piled up in the gutter on a street in Barangay Bucana.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Blatchley said he is disgusted seeing these filthy gutters, which are only meters away from his popular D&#8217;Bone Museum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am embarrassed that it is the first thing to greet the visitors of the museum who come from various parts of the Philippines, some even abroad,&#8221; Blatchley said.<\/p>\n<p>The Davao-based American scientist and collector first posted on his Facebook account on Wednesday photos of the congested gutters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was challenged by one of the commenters to clean it myself since no one wants to do it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, around 11 a.m., Blatchley and his staff pulled out heaps of trash and debris from their mini clean-up drive.<\/p>\n<p>He also challenged the residents of Barangay Bucana, as well as the other barangays in the city, to show some concern through waste disposal management.<\/p>\n<p>Blatchley had previously called on authorities and Filipinos to take action against the widespread patronage of single-use plastics.<\/p>\n<p>This, after a beaked whale was washed ashore and was found to have ingested about 40 kilos of plastics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Filipinos] are proud people, sadly, it is not in being clean or taking care of the environment. The Philippines need to change [starting] from the children or nothing will be left,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8212; An American marine biologist has taken the initiative to clean up a clogged gutter in one of Davao City&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":209511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54365,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christine-cudis","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209512,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209491\/revisions\/209512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}