{"id":29745,"date":"2014-10-24T21:04:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29745"},"modified":"2014-10-24T21:03:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:03:52","slug":"us-agrees-to-pay-for-damage-caused-by-us-navy-ship-to-protected-philippine-coral-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/24\/us-agrees-to-pay-for-damage-caused-by-us-navy-ship-to-protected-philippine-coral-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"US agrees to pay for damage caused by US Navy ship to protected Philippine coral reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-660\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/800px-Guardian_is_salvaged_from_the_Tubbataha_Reef_-a-MARCH-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-660\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/800px-Guardian_is_salvaged_from_the_Tubbataha_Reef_-a-MARCH-2013.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Navy photo \/ Wiki Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/800px-Guardian_is_salvaged_from_the_Tubbataha_Reef_-a-MARCH-2013.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/800px-Guardian_is_salvaged_from_the_Tubbataha_Reef_-a-MARCH-2013-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Navy photo \/ Wiki Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014A\u00a0Philippine\u00a0official says the United States will pay 87 million pesos ($1.9 million) for damage caused by a U.S. Navy minesweeper that ran aground on a protected coral reef last year.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario told a legislative hearing on Friday that the U.S. had agreed to pay the amount.<\/p>\n<p>The minesweeper USS Guardian ran aground in the Tubbataha National Marine Park and was removed two months later after being dismantled and lifted piece by piece by a crane to prevent more damage to the reef.<\/p>\n<p>The reef has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n<p>The ship\u2019s grounding was an embarrassing event as Washington attempts to reassert its presence in Asia amid China\u2019s rise. U.S. officials earlier apologized to the\u00a0Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014A\u00a0Philippine\u00a0official says the United States will pay 87 million pesos ($1.9 million) for damage caused by a U.S. Navy minesweeper &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29745","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}